Bot intelligence record
Pingdom
Usually allowUse the Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4 identifier to separate Pingdom uptime, accessibility, or site-health monitoring traffic from normal visitor requests in server logs.
- Operator
- Pingdom
- Family
- Pingdom
- Type
- Monitoring
- Source type
- Verified Directory
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
User-Agent Pattern
PingdomPingdom.com_bot_version_1.4
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
Click snippet to copyUser-agent: http://www.pingdom.com/ Disallow: /Click the snippet to copy it, or highlight the text manually.
Handling Guidance
DependsThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Pingdom
- Family
- Pingdom
- Type
- Monitoring
- Purpose
- Monitoring
- Identity type
- Verified Bot
- Confidence
- Medium
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-05-20
- Source type
- Verified Directory
- Verification
- Validate the user-agent pattern, operator documentation, and any published IP ranges before trusting.
- Spoofing risk
- User-agent strings for Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4 can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.
Notes
Pingdom is listed in the Botcrawl directory as a monitoring bot from Pingdom. The primary identifier for log review is Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4.
Identification
- User-agent pattern:
Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4 - Family: Pingdom
- Type: Monitoring
- Kind: Monitor
Common use
Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.
Verification and handling
Validate the user-agent pattern, operator documentation, and any published IP ranges before trusting.
Directory guidance marks the risk level as Safe and the blocking decision as Depends. Do not rely on the user-agent string alone because user-agent strings can be copied or spoofed.
Robots.txt handling: Yes.
Evidence and Source
- Validate the user-agent pattern, operator documentation, and any published IP ranges before trusting.
- Match `Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4` as a case-insensitive substring in HTTP user-agent logs. Review bot_aliases for alternate names or product labels. Use bot_http_agent for full user-agent examples when the client sends a longer browser-like string. Do not treat a user-agent match alone as proof of identity for allow-listing.
- Uptime checks, managed website monitoring, synthetic tests, accessibility scans, or site-health reviews.
- User-agent strings for Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4 can be spoofed. Treat user-agent detection as a classification signal, then verify with published IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, operator documentation, or published operator documentation, IP ranges, reverse DNS, signatures, or other verified identity signals before allow-listing.
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