Bot intelligence record

NewRelicPinger

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NewRelicPinger is a monitoring bot from New Relic used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as `NewRelicPinger`.

Monitoring Bot Uptime And Performance Monitoring Documented Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
New Relic
Family
New Relic
Source type
Observed
Last checked
2026-06-22

User-Agent Pattern

New Relic
NewRelicPinger
Verification note

User-agent strings are identification signals, not proof of identity. Confirm important allow, block, or rate-limit decisions with logs, DNS or IP evidence, request behavior, or operator documentation when available.

Robots.txt Snippet

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User-agent: NewRelicPinger
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Allow

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NewRelicPinger is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
New Relic
Family
New Relic
Purpose
Uptime And Performance Monitoring
Identity type
Documented
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-06-22
Last checked
2026-06-22
Source type
Observed
Verification
Verify NewRelicPinger by matching `NewRelicPinger` to New Relic evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Spoofing risk
NewRelicPinger has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.

Notes

  • NewRelicPinger is a monitoring bot from New Relic used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is NewRelicPinger.
  • NewRelicPinger is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Documented, and the evidence basis is observed traffic patterns and user-agent evidence.
  • NewRelicPinger does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
  • NewRelicPinger can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify NewRelicPinger by matching `NewRelicPinger` to New Relic evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
  • NewRelicPinger traffic is primarily detected by the `NewRelicPinger` user-agent pattern. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with New Relic infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • NewRelicPinger is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • NewRelicPinger has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.

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