Watchbot

What is Watchbot?

About

Watchbot is a monitoring service that performs automated checks on website availability and SSL certificate expiration dates, alerting users to potential downtime or security certificate issues before they affect end users. You can see how often Watchbot 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 WatchBot
Last Updated 10 hours ago

Insights

Top Website Robots.txts

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

Germany
Watchbot normally visits from Germany

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 Watchbot?

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

How Do I Block Watchbot?

⚠️ 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 Watchbot 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 Watchbot monitoring robot (https://watchbot.fflow.net) 
# robots.txt
# This should block Watchbot

User-agent: Watchbot
Disallow: /