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What is UptimeRobot?

Direct Answer: UptimeRobot is a free website uptime monitoring service that checks if your website is up or down at configurable intervals.

Operator: UptimeRobot Type: Monitoring Bot Purpose: Website monitoring

User-Agent Identification

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

  • Mozilla/5.0+(compatible; UptimeRobot/2.0; http://www.uptimerobot.com/)

robots.txt Rules for UptimeRobot

Respects robots.txt: No

This bot does not commit to following robots.txt

UptimeRobot 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 UptimeRobot 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 87.5
Mar 29, 2026 85.7
Mar 30, 2026 86.2
Mar 31, 2026 85.6
Apr 1, 2026 87.2
Apr 2, 2026 83.2
Apr 3, 2026 78.9

Source: Cloudflare Radar

Why track UptimeRobot traffic?

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

Log Verification

To verify UptimeRobot 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 UptimeRobot)
  3. Verify the crawl pattern matches documented behavior
  4. 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 UptimeRobot Documentation →

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