IsDownBot
What is IsDownBot?
About
IsDownBot monitors over 4,400+ cloud vendors and services to detect outages and downtime, aggregating status page information and providing real-time notifications to help teams respond quickly to service disruptions. You can see how often IsDownBot 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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Operated By | IsDownBot |
Last Updated | 20 hours ago |
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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block IsDownBot?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block IsDownBot?
You can block IsDownBot 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 IsDownBot
User-agent: IsDownBot
Disallow: /