Bot intelligence record

Splunk

Usually allow

Splunk is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as `Rigor`.

Monitoring Verified Bot Confidence: Medium Verified: Yes robots.txt: Unknown
Operator
Splunk
Family
Splunk
Type
Monitoring
Source type
Documented
Last checked
2026-06-23

User-Agent Pattern

Splunk
Rigor
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: Rigor
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

No

This bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.

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

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Splunk
Family
Splunk
Type
Monitoring
Purpose
Monitoring
Identity type
Verified Bot
Confidence
Medium
Last verified
2026-04-01
Last checked
2026-06-23
Source type
Documented
Verification
Verify Splunk by matching `Rigor` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Spoofing risk
Splunk has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.

Notes

  • Splunk is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is Rigor; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Rigor) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36.
  • Splunk is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
  • Splunk does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
  • Splunk can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify Splunk by matching `Rigor` to documented crawler-pattern evidence, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
  • Splunk traffic is primarily detected by the `Rigor` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; Rigor) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
  • Splunk is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • Splunk 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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