kinsta-bot
What is kinsta-bot?
About
kinsta-bot performs uptime monitoring checks on Kinsta-hosted websites every 3 minutes to detect site errors, DNS issues, SSL problems, and confirm successful domain pointing configurations. You can see how often kinsta-bot 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 | Kinsta |
Last Updated | 17 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 kinsta-bot?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block kinsta-bot?
You can block kinsta-bot 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 kinsta-bot
User-agent: kinsta-bot
Disallow: /