What is Checkly Bot?

Checkly Bot is a developer helper operated by Checkly. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

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Expected Behavior

Checkly 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

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.

How To Block Checkly Bot

Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that Checkly Bot not access your website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.

User-agent: Checkly Bot # https://knownagents.com/agents/checkly-bot
Disallow: /

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block Checkly Bot?

Only if nobody you work with uses it. Checkly 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 Checkly Bot right now.

Does Checkly Bot Respect Robots.txt?

No. Checkly 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 Checkly 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, Checkly Bot sees only public pages.

Why Is Checkly Bot Visiting My Website?

Someone pointed Checkly 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 Checkly Bot Is Visiting My Website?

Agent Analytics tracks Checkly 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 "Checkly Bot". Look for regular checks of the same pages or endpoints, often minutes apart. Keep in mind that Checkly 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.