Bot intelligence record
UptimeBot
Usually allowUptimeBot is a monitoring bot used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review; it appears in server logs as `UptimeBot/1`.
- Operator
- UptimeBot
- Family
- UptimeBot
- Type
- Monitoring
- Source type
- Documented
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
User-Agent Pattern
UptimeBotUptimeBot/1
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: UptimeBot/1
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.
UptimeBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
Record Details
Structured data- Operator
- UptimeBot
- Family
- UptimeBot
- Type
- Monitoring
- Purpose
- Monitoring
- Identity type
- Observed
- Confidence
- Low
- Last verified
- 2026-04-01
- Last checked
- 2026-06-23
- Source type
- Documented
- Verification
- 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.
- Spoofing risk
- UptimeBot has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
Notes
- 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 isUptimeBot/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.
Evidence and Source
- 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.
- 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.
- UptimeBot is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
- UptimeBot has high spoofing risk because the pattern is low-confidence or observation-based; do not trust the user-agent by itself.
Monitor This Bot In Edge
Botcrawl EdgeUse Botcrawl Edge to see matching traffic, identify related datacenter activity, and create allow, block, rate-limit, or log rules across connected sites.