What is Pulsetic?
Direct Answer: Pulsetic is a website monitoring service operated by Pulsetic, providing uptime monitoring and down alerts.
Pulsetic is a monitoring bot that checks website uptime and sends alerts when a site goes down. It is operated by Pulsetic and identified by the user agent 'pulsetic.com (+https://pulsetic.com)'. The bot does not follow robots.txt instructions from the database.
User-Agent Identification
The following user-agent strings identify Pulsetic in your live traffic data:
pulsetic.com (+https://pulsetic.com)
robots.txt Rules for Pulsetic
Respects robots.txt: No
This bot does not commit to following robots.txt
Pulsetic 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:Not Documented
Request Pattern:Not Documented
Official Documentation Quotes
"If you need to add our user agent to your firewall or other software to identify Pulsetic traffic or pings, you can include the Pulsetic user agent in your whitelist as a trusted agent for your website."
Crawl Activity Index
Relative crawl activity for Pulsetic 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 | 88.8 |
Source: Cloudflare Radar
Why track Pulsetic traffic?
Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. Pulsetic 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 Pulsetic checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.
Log Verification
To verify Pulsetic 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 Pulsetic)
- Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
- Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available
IP Verification: Pulsetic provides official IP verification via Published IP ranges. View verification instructions →
IPs can be added to the whitelist to avoid blocking monitoring
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 Pulsetic:
- crawl frequency
- request pattern
- JavaScript rendering details
Official Documentation
View Official Pulsetic Documentation →
Information sourced from official documentation. Content generated with AI assistance.