Bot intelligence record
UpDownBot
Usually allowUpDownBot is a monitoring bot from Updown used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as `updown.io`.
- Operator
- Updown
- Family
- Updown
- Type
- Monitoring
- Source type
- Documented
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
User-Agent Pattern
Updownupdown.io
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: updown.io
Disallow: /Click the snippet to copy it, or highlight the text manually.
Handling Guidance
NoThis bot is usually safe to allow when the request source is verified and the traffic matches your site policy.
UpDownBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- Updown
- Family
- Updown
- 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 UpDownBot by matching `updown.io` to Updown evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- Spoofing risk
- UpDownBot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Notes
- UpDownBot is a monitoring bot from Updown used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Its primary user-agent pattern is
updown.io; a representative HTTP user-agent isupdown.io daemon 2.2. - UpDownBot is verified with Medium confidence. The identity type is Verified Bot, and the evidence basis is documented crawler-pattern evidence.
- UpDownBot does not have confirmed robots.txt behavior in the available public evidence.
- UpDownBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Evidence and Source
- Verify UpDownBot by matching `updown.io` to Updown evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
- UpDownBot traffic is primarily detected by the `updown.io` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `updown.io daemon 2.2`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Updown infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
- UpDownBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- UpDownBot has medium spoofing risk because user-agent strings can be copied; pair the match with DNS, IP, behavior, or operator evidence.
Monitor This Bot In Edge
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