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
Detail
Operated By | Rackspace |
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 Rackspace Monitoring?
Probably not. Developer helpers are normally used to optimize or find problems with your website.
How Do I Block Rackspace Monitoring?
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: /