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
Detail
| Operated By | Grafana Labs |
| Last Updated | 16 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
Country of Origin
Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
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?
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/v0.42.0 (linux amd64; 64f6886d9d3991f1089aadfdf2c0f68698a1396e; 2025-09-08T12:22:40Z; +https://github.com/grafana/synthetic-monitoring-agent) |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: grafana # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/grafana
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.