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

Detail

Insights

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Top Visited Website Categories

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?

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.

# In your robots.txt ...

User-agent: Better Uptime Bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/better-uptime-bot
Disallow: /

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Editing Is Not Scalable

New agents are created every day. We recommend setting up Dark Visitors Automatic Robots.txt if you want to block all agents of this type.