Honeybadger Uptime Check

What is Honeybadger Uptime Check?

About

Honeybadger Uptime Check is a monitoring bot that performs regular HTTP requests to websites to test availability, response times, and SSL certificate status for Honeybadger's uptime monitoring service. You can see how often Honeybadger Uptime Check 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 Honeybadger Industries
Last Updated 17 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Honeybadger Uptime Check
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Country of Origin

Unknown
Honeybadger Uptime Check has no known country of origin

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 Honeybadger Uptime Check?

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

How Do I Block Honeybadger Uptime Check?

⚠️ 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 Honeybadger Uptime Check 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.

# robots.txt
# This should block Honeybadger Uptime Check

User-agent: Honeybadger Uptime Check
Disallow: /

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