Overview
UptimeBot is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Its primary user-agent pattern is UptimeBot/1; a representative HTTP user-agent is UptimeBot/1.0 EU-1 (+https://uptime.bot/hello).
UptimeBot is not independently verified with Low confidence. The identity type is Observed, and the evidence basis is a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation.
UptimeBot is marked as not reliably governed by robots.txt directives; use server-side rules if the traffic should be restricted.
UptimeBot can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.
Identity
- User-Agent
UptimeBot/1- HTTP Agent Examples
UptimeBot/1.0 EU-1 (+https://uptime.bot/hello)- Robots.txt Token
UptimeBot/1- Identity Type
- Observed
- Evidence Method
- Verify UptimeBot by matching `UptimeBot/1` to a public crawler reference or source-linked documentation, then checking reverse DNS, IP ownership, request behavior, and crawl consistency.
Classification
- Type
- Monitoring
- Kind
- Monitor
- Family
- UptimeBot
- Purpose
- monitoring
Behavior and handling
- Common Use
- UptimeBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- Detection Notes
- UptimeBot traffic is primarily detected by the `UptimeBot/1` user-agent pattern; a representative HTTP user-agent is `UptimeBot/1.0 EU-1 (+https://uptime.bot/hello)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence before trusting the traffic.
- Respects robots.txt
- No
- Spoofing Risk
- UptimeBot has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
- 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.