grafana

What is grafana?

About

Grafana Synthetic Monitoring agent executes network checks and probes from global locations to test website availability, performance, and API functionality, providing real-time monitoring and alerting. You can see how often grafana 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 Grafana Labs
Last Updated 5 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking grafana
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Country of Origin

United Kingdom
grafana normally visits from the United Kingdom

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 grafana?

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

How Do I Block grafana?

⚠️ 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 grafana 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 synthetic-monitoring-agent/v0.40.1 (linux amd64; 86cf07fee1df7bf65a233cda242396addf3db857; 2025-08-18T16:59:04Z; +https://github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-agent) 
# robots.txt
# This should block grafana

User-agent: grafana
Disallow: /

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