PRTGCloudBot
What is PRTGCloudBot?
About
PRTGCloudBot is a monitoring bot used by Paessler PRTG Network Monitor to monitor websites, servers, and IT infrastructure for availability, performance, and overall reliability. It provides comprehensive network monitoring and alerting capabilities. You can see how often PRTGCloudBot 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 | Paessler |
Last Updated | 17 hours ago |
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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers
Robots.txt
Should I Block PRTGCloudBot?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block PRTGCloudBot?
You can block PRTGCloudBot 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 PRTGCloudBot
User-agent: PRTGCloudBot
Disallow: /