How to control Uptime Robot
Target Uptime Robot in your robots.txt with the UptimeRobot token. Rules apply per bot, so you can allow this one while blocking others, or the reverse.
Allow Uptime Robot
User-agent: UptimeRobot
Allow: /Block Uptime Robot
User-agent: UptimeRobot
Disallow: /UptimeRobot publishes the list of IP addresses its monitoring checks originate from at uptimerobot.com/help/locations/, so site owners can allowlist or verify its requests by source IP.
How to identify Uptime Robot
Temso identifies Uptime Robottraffic 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.
UptimeRobotUptime Robot FAQ
What is Uptime Robot?
Uptime Robot is a monitoring service whose checks originate from a published list of IP addresses, available at uptimerobot.com/help/locations/. Its documentation asks site owners to allow these addresses so its monitoring of their services is not blocked.
How do I block Uptime Robot?
Add a robots.txt group with "User-agent: UptimeRobot" followed by "Disallow: /". UptimeRobot's documentation does not state whether its checks honor robots.txt; since it publishes the IP addresses its monitors use at uptimerobot.com/help/locations/, blocking those addresses at the firewall is the more reliable option.
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.
