How to recognize our bot
Every visit carries the same user agent
HetrixTools Uptime Monitoring Bot. https://hetrix.tools/uptime-monitoring-bot.htmlSearch your access log for “HetrixTools Uptime Monitoring Bot”.
Someone is keeping an eye on your website
A HetrixTools user added your website as an uptime monitor. Our bot checks that one address on a schedule, and alerts them when it stops responding, returns an error, or is missing a keyword they look for.
- Only the address it was given
- Follows up to 10 redirects
- Never submits forms or crawls links
Prefer it didn’t visit?
Contact us to opt out, or block our bot yourself.
Contact us to opt out
Send us the address that’s being monitored, and we’ll opt your website out.
Block our IP addresses
Every check comes from one of our monitoring nodes, so you can block them in your firewall.
Block our user agent
Refuse requests whose user agent contains “HetrixTools Uptime Monitoring Bot”, in your web server or web application firewall.
Once our bot or our IP addresses are blocked, the uptime monitor checking your website will go down.
Monitor your own website
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