Rackspace Monitoring

What is Rackspace Monitoring?

About

Rackspace Monitoring is Rackspace's automated monitoring service that performs HTTP checks, uptime monitoring, and health assessments on customer websites and infrastructure to provide alerts and performance data. You can see how often Rackspace Monitoring 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 2 minutes ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

United States
Rackspace Monitoring 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 Monitoring?

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

How Do I Block Rackspace Monitoring?

⚠️ 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 Monitoring 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 Monitoring

User-agent: Rackspace Monitoring
Disallow: /