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.
Overview
| Operated By | Better Stack |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | August 11, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Better Uptime Bot's traffic often follows fixed intervals like a cron job. Activity may consist of short recurring checks or occasional intensive bursts, but it usually remains limited to a specific set of pages or endpoints.
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 |
How To Block Better Uptime Bot With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that Better Uptime Bot not access your website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to request the same of all developer helpers at once. 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: /Global Statistics for Better Uptime Bot
As of August 11, 2026, this data reflects agent visits measured across thousands of websites using Agent Analytics, combined with daily scans of the top 1000 websites and their robots.txt files.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
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Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block Better Uptime Bot in their robots.txt files.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
0.3% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Better Uptime Bot.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Better Uptime Bot?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. Better Uptime Bot may support uptime monitoring, performance tests, or audits. Blocking it without checking first can silently disrupt those workflows. Almost none of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Better Uptime Bot.
Does Better Uptime Bot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. Better Uptime Bot is not expected to follow robots.txt directives, so a disallow rule only communicates your preference. Enforce the block with firewall or server rules, then use Agent Analytics to verify that its requests stop.
Does Better Uptime Bot Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant Better Uptime Bot credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
Why Is Better Uptime Bot Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured Better Uptime Bot to check your site. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools visit only the sites or endpoints they are told 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 repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because Better Uptime Bot does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.