What is Better Uptime Bot?
Better Uptime Bot is Better Stack's monitoring bot that checks website and infrastructure uptime, performing automated health checks and status monitoring to alert users about service outages and performance issues. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Better Uptime Bot's traffic is as regular as a cron job, because it usually is one. Uptime monitors hit the same endpoint every few minutes, while performance and audit tools run deeper scans on demand. Expect narrow, repetitive access to specific pages rather than crawling.
Overview
| Operated By | Better Stack |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | July 6, 2026 |
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
As of July 6, 2026, 0% of top websites block Better Uptime Bot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
As of July 6, 2026, 0.6% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Top Visited Website Categories
This data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the world's top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Better Uptime Bot's User Agent
| User Agent | Better Uptime Bot Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/74.0.3729.169 Safari/537.36 |
Access other known user agents and IP addresses using the Enterprise API.
How To Block Better Uptime Bot
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that Better Uptime Bot not access your website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Better Uptime Bot # https://knownagents.com/agents/better-uptime-bot
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Better Uptime Bot?
Only if nobody you work with uses it. Better Uptime Bot is the kind of tool a team points at its own site for uptime checks, performance tests, and audits. If someone on your team relies on it, blocking it silently breaks their monitoring. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for Better Uptime Bot right now.
Does Better Uptime Bot Respect Robots.txt?
No. Better Uptime Bot is not expected to honor robots.txt, so a disallow rule only states your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then confirm in Agent Analytics that its requests actually stop.
Does Better Uptime Bot Access Private Content?
Only if its owner sets that up. Monitoring tools check whatever they are configured to check, which can include staging sites and private health endpoints when a team grants access. Uninvited, Better Uptime Bot sees only public pages.
Why Is Better Uptime Bot Visiting My Website?
Someone pointed Better Uptime Bot at your site, most likely your own team. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools only visit the sites they are configured to watch.
How Can I Tell if Better Uptime Bot Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Better Uptime Bot visits in real time alongside every other known AI agent, crawler, and scraper. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user agent string contains "Better Uptime Bot". Look for regular checks of the same pages or endpoints, often minutes apart. Keep in mind that Better Uptime Bot doesn't publish a verification method, so any client can claim its user agent string and a log match is a hint rather than proof.