What is Better Uptime?
Direct Answer: Better Uptime is a monitoring bot operated by Better Stack, used for monitoring infrastructure platforms.
The Better Uptime bot is a monitoring tool operated by Better Stack. It uses specific User-Agent headers to identify itself and can be configured to work with various infrastructure platforms. The bot's IP addresses may change without prior notice, making User-Agent based configuration recommended.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Better Uptime in your live traffic data:
Better Uptime Bot Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36
robots.txt Rules for Better Uptime
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
Better Uptime does not officially follow robots.txt directives. The only reliable way to control access is through server-side blocking (IP filtering, user-agent rules in your web server config) combined with log monitoring to verify effectiveness.
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Crawl Behavior
Frequency:Continuous
Request Pattern:The Bot Makes Requests From A Changing Set Of IP Addresses Across Different Regions (AS, AU, EU, US).
Official Documentation Quotes
"We highly recommend you configure your firewall based on our User-Agent since our IPs will change without prior notice."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Better Uptime over the past 28 days. Higher values indicate increased crawling intensity compared to the period baseline.
View recent activity data (last 7 days)
| Date | Activity Index |
|---|---|
| Mar 26, 2026 | 88.0 |
| Mar 27, 2026 | 82.7 |
| Mar 28, 2026 | 83.1 |
| Mar 29, 2026 | 81.8 |
| Mar 30, 2026 | 87.3 |
| Mar 31, 2026 | 90.2 |
| Apr 1, 2026 | 88.9 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Better Uptime traffic?
Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. Better Uptime checks your site availability at regular intervals. Without proper identification, these requests can inflate your bot traffic metrics and distort crawl analysis.
Validate monitoring coverage. Track which pages Better Uptime checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.
Log Verification
To verify Better Uptime traffic in your live traffic data:
- Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
- Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Better Stack)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
IP Verification: Better Stack provides official IP verification via Published IP ranges. View verification instructions →
IP addresses may change without prior notice. A CRON script is recommended to refresh the list hourly.
Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.
Undocumented Information
The following information is not officially documented for Better Uptime:
- JavaScript rendering details
Official Documentation
View Official Better Uptime Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.