Does Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent respect robots.txt rules?

According to official documentation, Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent does not respect robots.txt rules.

How can I verify Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent traffic with live traffic data?

You can verify Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent requests by checking your server access logs for the documented user-agent strings. For accurate verification, correlate user-agent patterns with IP ranges or verification methods provided by Thousand Eyes.

What is Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent?

Direct Answer: ThousandEyes monitors network infrastructure, troubleshoots application delivery and maps Internet performance, all from a SaaS-based platform.

Operator: Thousand Eyes Type: Monitoring Bot Purpose: Website monitoring

User-Agent Identification

The following user-agent strings identify Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent in your live traffic data:

curl/7.58.0-DEV

robots.txt Rules for Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent 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 Activity Index

Relative crawl activity for Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent 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 Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent traffic?

Distinguish monitoring traffic from real crawler activity. Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent 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 Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent checks and how frequently, so your monitoring setup matches your infrastructure requirements.

Log Verification

To verify Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent 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 Thousand Eyes)
Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
Use reverse DNS lookup for additional verification if available

Note: Observed behavior in production environments may differ from official documentation. Live traffic monitoring provides the only reliable verification of actual bot behavior.

Official Documentation

View Official Thousand Eyes Cloud Agent Documentation →

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