Better Uptime

What is Better Uptime?

About

Better Uptime is a developer helper operated by Better Stack. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Better Uptime visits your website by setting up Dark Visitors agent analytics.

Expected Behavior

Developer helpers generally visit websites on direct behalf of a user who is evaluating some feature or attribute. Visits can be one-off or part of a larger crawl.

Type

Developer Helper

Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By	Better Stack
Last Updated	14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Better Uptime

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Country of Origin

Unknown

Better Uptime has no known country of origin

Global Traffic

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Better Uptime?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Better Uptime?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.

Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Better Uptime or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt. Set up Dark Visitors agent analytics to check whether it's actually following them.

# robots.txt
# This should block Better Uptime

User-agent: Better Uptime
Disallow: /