What DigitalOceanUptimeBot does
DigitalOceanUptimeBot performs checks for DigitalOcean Uptime, a monitoring product that checks the health of any URL or IP address. It can check endpoints via HTTPS, HTTP, and ICMP, and tracks latency, uptime status, and SSL certificate expiration. The service sends email and Slack alerts at thresholds the customer chooses.
How to control DigitalOceanUptimeBot
Target DigitalOceanUptimeBot in your robots.txt with the DigitalOceanUptimeBot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow DigitalOceanUptimeBot
User-agent: DigitalOceanUptimeBot
Allow: /Block DigitalOceanUptimeBot
User-agent: DigitalOceanUptimeBot
Disallow: /How to identify DigitalOceanUptimeBot
Temso identifies DigitalOceanUptimeBottraffic 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.
DigitalOceanUptimeBotDigitalOceanUptimeBot FAQ
What is DigitalOceanUptimeBot?
DigitalOceanUptimeBot is the check agent for DigitalOcean Uptime, a monitoring service that checks the health of a URL or IP address via HTTPS, HTTP, or ICMP and tracks latency, uptime, and SSL certificate expiration. It sends email and Slack alerts at thresholds the customer chooses.
How do I block DigitalOceanUptimeBot?
DigitalOcean's documentation does not state whether the bot reads robots.txt, and its checks are configured by a DigitalOcean customer rather than by autonomous crawling. ICMP checks do not involve HTTP at all, so robots.txt cannot affect them; blocking this traffic requires network-level rules.
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.
