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YandexSitelinks

Usually allow

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

Monitoring Official Documented Confidence: High Verified: Yes robots.txt: Yes
Operator
Yandex
Family
Yandex
Type
Monitoring
Source type
Official
Last checked
2026-05-20

User-Agent Pattern

Yandex
YandexSitelinks
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: YandexSitelinks
Disallow: /

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Handling Guidance

Depends

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

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

Record Details

Structured data
Operator
Yandex
Family
Yandex
Type
Monitoring
Purpose
Monitoring
Identity type
Official Documented
Confidence
High
Last verified
2026-04-29
Last checked
2026-05-20
Source type
Official
Verification
Verify YandexSitelinks by matching `YandexSitelinks` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
Spoofing risk
YandexSitelinks has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

Notes

  • YandexSitelinks is a monitoring bot from Yandex used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • Its primary user-agent pattern is YandexSitelinks; related patterns include YandexSitelinks Yandex robot; a representative HTTP user-agent is Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots).
  • YandexSitelinks is verified with High confidence. The identity type is Official Documented, and the evidence basis is official operator documentation.
  • YandexSitelinks is marked as respecting robots.txt directives for crawler access control.
  • YandexSitelinks can usually be allowed after confirming the source and monitoring request volume.

Evidence and Source

  • Verify YandexSitelinks by matching `YandexSitelinks` to Yandex evidence, then checking reverse DNS, source-network ownership, signed request data, or published crawler documentation when available.
  • YandexSitelinks traffic is primarily detected by the `YandexSitelinks` user-agent pattern; related patterns include `YandexSitelinks Yandex robot`; a representative HTTP user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexSitelinks; Dyatel; +http://yandex.com/bots)`. Compare source IPs, reverse DNS, request paths, and crawl cadence with Yandex infrastructure before trusting the traffic.
  • YandexSitelinks is used for uptime monitoring, synthetic checks, performance measurement, accessibility review, and site-health testing.
  • YandexSitelinks has medium spoofing risk because the user-agent can be copied, even when the bot has strong source or documentation support.

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