What Better Stack does
Better Stack's uptime monitoring service sends requests to endpoints its customers configure in order to check availability and trigger alerts. Requests identify themselves with a user-agent containing "Better Stack Better Uptime Bot"; monitors created before November 11, 2024 use an older "Better Uptime Bot" user-agent. Better Stack publishes the IP addresses of its monitoring locations (AS, AU, EU, and US) in TXT and JSON formats, and alerting to customers can also arrive by phone call or SMS from documented numbers.
How to identify Better Stack
Temso identifies Better Stacktraffic by matching the request's User-Agent header against this pattern. User-agent strings can be spoofed, so treat a match as an indication, not proof.
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What is Better Stack?
Better Stack is an uptime monitoring and alerting service whose checks request customer-configured endpoints and identify themselves with a user-agent containing "Better Stack Better Uptime Bot" (older monitors use "Better Uptime Bot"). It monitors from published IP ranges in AS, AU, EU, and US locations.
Can I block Better Stack with robots.txt?
No robots.txt token is documented for Better Stack, and its documentation does not mention robots.txt behavior; it is an uptime monitor probing endpoints its customers configure rather than a content crawler. To block or restrict it, Better Stack's documentation points to firewall rules based on its User-Agent, since its IP addresses can change without prior notice.
About Operational Bots
Monitoring, security scanning, link previews, webhooks, and feed fetchers: the utility traffic that keeps integrations and shared links working.
Most of this traffic is service-critical or user-triggered. Webhooks and previews don't follow robots.txt, and blocking them tends to break things you rely on.
