Overview
PaesslerCloudBot is a monitoring bot from Paessler used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is PRTGCloudBot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PRTGCloudBot/1.0; +http://www.paessler.com/prtgcloudbot for_[edf7e62f223b268942b7efa36b6be1e305fcdadb]).
PaesslerCloudBot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
PaesslerCloudBot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
PaesslerCloudBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
PRTGCloudBot- Aliases
- PRTGCloudBot
- HTTP Agent Examples
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PRTGCloudBot/1.0; +http://www.paessler.com/prtgcloudbot; for_[edf7e62f223b268942b7efa36b6be1e305fcdadb])- Robots.txt Token
PRTGCloudBot- Identity Type
- Verified Bot
- Evidence Method
- Verify PaesslerCloudBot by matching `PRTGCloudBot` to Paessler evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- Paessler
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- PaesslerCloudBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- PaesslerCloudBot traffic is primarily detected by the `PRTGCloudBot` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; PRTGCloudBot/1.0; +http://www.paessler.com/prtgcloudbot for_[edf7e62f223b268942b7efa36b6be1e305fcdadb])`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Paessler infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- PaesslerCloudBot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
- Risk
- Safe
- Recommended Handling
- No
Rules and controls
- Robots.txt Snippet
# This agent may ignore robots.txt. Use authenticated access controls or network policy when blocking is required.