What is Datadog Synthetic?
Datadog Synthetic is a monitoring bot that performs synthetic tests and uptime checks on websites and APIs to measure performance, availability, and user experience from various locations around the world. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
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Expected Behavior
Datadog Synthetic'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 | Datadog |
| 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 Datadog Synthetic in their robots.txt files.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
As of July 6, 2026, 0.6% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
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 Datadog Synthetic
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that Datadog Synthetic not access your website. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Datadog Synthetic # https://knownagents.com/agents/datadog-synthetic
Disallow: /Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Datadog Synthetic?
Only if nobody you work with uses it. Datadog Synthetic 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 Datadog Synthetic right now.
Does Datadog Synthetic Respect Robots.txt?
No. Datadog Synthetic 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 Datadog Synthetic 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, Datadog Synthetic sees only public pages.
Why Is Datadog Synthetic Visiting My Website?
Someone pointed Datadog Synthetic 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 Datadog Synthetic Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Datadog Synthetic 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 "Datadog Synthetic". Look for regular checks of the same pages or endpoints, often minutes apart. Keep in mind that Datadog Synthetic 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.