Datadog

What is Datadog?

About

Datadog Synthetics performs automated website and API monitoring through simulated user requests and browser rendering to test application performance and availability. You can see how often Datadog 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	DataDog
Last Updated	5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking Datadog

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Country of Origin

United States

Datadog 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 Datadog?

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

How Do I Block Datadog?

⚠️ 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 Datadog 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 Datadog/Synthetics

# robots.txt
# This should block Datadog

User-agent: Datadog
Disallow: /