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.
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Detail
| Operated By | Honeybadger Industries |
| Last Updated | 15 hours ago |
Insights
Top Website Robots.txts
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Global Traffic
The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
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?
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.
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: Honeybadger Uptime Check # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/honeybadger-uptime-check
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.