What is Onetrust CMP Scanner?

Onetrust CMP Scanner is a developer helper operated by OneTrust. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.

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Expected Behavior

Onetrust CMP Scanner'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 Onetrust CMP Scanner

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

User-agent: Onetrust CMP Scanner # https://knownagents.com/agents/onetrust-cmp-scanner
Disallow: /

Frequently Asked Questions

Should I Block Onetrust CMP Scanner?

Only if nobody you work with uses it. Onetrust CMP Scanner 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 Onetrust CMP Scanner right now.

Does Onetrust CMP Scanner Respect Robots.txt?

No. Onetrust CMP Scanner 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 Onetrust CMP Scanner 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, Onetrust CMP Scanner sees only public pages.

Why Is Onetrust CMP Scanner Visiting My Website?

Someone pointed Onetrust CMP Scanner 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 Onetrust CMP Scanner Is Visiting My Website?

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