Better Uptime Bot

What is Better Uptime Bot?

About

Better Uptime Bot is Better Stack's monitoring bot that checks website and infrastructure uptime, performing automated health checks and status monitoring to alert users about service outages and performance issues. You can see how often Better Uptime Bot 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	8 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Better Uptime Bot

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Country of Origin

United States

Better Uptime Bot normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Better Uptime Bot?

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

How Do I Block Better Uptime Bot?

⚠️ 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 Bot 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.

User Agent String Better Uptime Bot Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36

# robots.txt
# This should block Better Uptime Bot

User-agent: Better Uptime Bot
Disallow: /