Rackspace

What is Rackspace?

About

Rackspace is a developer helper operated by Rackspace. If you think this is incorrect or can provide additional detail about its purpose, please contact us. You can see how often Rackspace 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

Developer Helper
Used by developers to test website functionality

Detail

Operated By Rackspace
Last Updated 14 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

0%
0% of top websites are blocking Rackspace
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Country of Origin

United States
Rackspace normally visits from the United States

Global Traffic

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The percentage of all internet traffic coming from Developer Helpers

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Robots.txt

Should I Block Rackspace?

Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.

How Do I Block Rackspace?

⚠️ Manual Robots.txt Edits Are Not Scalable
New agents are created every day. Instead, serve a continuously updating robots.txt that blocks new agents automatically.
Set Up Automatic Robots.txt

You can block Rackspace 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 Rackspace Monitoring/1.1 (https://monitoring.api.rackspacecloud.com) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Rackspace

User-agent: Rackspace
Disallow: /