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What is Monitage?

Direct Answer: Monitage is a monitoring bot operated by Monitage, used for uptime monitoring of websites and services.

Operator: Monitage Type: Monitoring Bot Purpose: Uptime monitoring and alerting

Monitage is an uptime monitoring bot that checks the availability of HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP, IMAP, and ICMP services from multiple geographic locations worldwide. It verifies the contents of HTTP/S responses and sends alerts if a majority of monitoring servers agree that an endpoint is down. The bot's purpose is to monitor uptime and send alerts in case of service disruptions.

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Monitage in your live traffic data:

  • Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; MonitageUptime/1.1; +http://monitage.com/uptime) Chrome/136.0 Safari/537.36

robots.txt Rules for Monitage

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Monitage 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:Periodic Checks Of Specified Services And URLs

Official Documentation Quotes

"Monitage can monitor HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, FTP, IMAP, and ICMP."

Crawl Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Monitage 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 28, 2026 16.9
Mar 29, 2026 8.1
Mar 30, 2026 12.3
Mar 31, 2026 9.8
Apr 1, 2026 8.7
Apr 2, 2026 15.3
Apr 3, 2026 22.7

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track Monitage traffic?

Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. Monitage 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 Monitage checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.

Log Verification

To verify Monitage traffic in your live traffic data:

  1. Search access logs for the user-agent strings listed above
  2. Check if the IP addresses match documented ranges (if provided by Monitage)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

IP Verification: Monitage provides official IP verification via Published IP ranges. View verification instructions →

IP address whitelisting is available for Monitage

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 Monitage:

  • JavaScript rendering details

Official Documentation

View Official Monitage Documentation →

Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.