HetrixTools

What is HetrixTools?

About

HetrixTools monitoring bot checks website uptime and availability from multiple monitoring locations. Performs 1-minute interval checks to ensure websites are online and responsive. You can see how often HetrixTools 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	HetrixTools Inc
Last Updated	3 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0% of top websites are blocking HetrixTools

Learn How →

Country of Origin

Singapore

HetrixTools normally visits from Singapore

Global Traffic

See All Global Bot & LLM Insights →

The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

Get These Insights for Your Website

Use the WordPress plugin, Node.js package, or API to get started in seconds.

Set Up Agent Analytics

Robots.txt

Should I Block HetrixTools?

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

How Do I Block HetrixTools?

⚠️ 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 HetrixTools 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 HetrixTools Uptime Monitoring Bot. https://hetrix.tools/uptime-monitoring-bot.html

# robots.txt
# This should block HetrixTools

User-agent: HetrixTools
Disallow: /