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 | 15 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.
User Agent String | kinsta-bot |
# In your robots.txt ...
User-agent: kinsta-bot # https://darkvisitors.com/agents/kinsta-bot
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.