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. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Better Uptime Bot visits your website.
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| Example 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 |
| Operated By | Better Stack |
| Source | Official Website |
| Triggered By | Scheduled or manual configuration |
| Used for AI Model Training | Not expected |
| Affects AI Chat & Search Visibility | Not directly |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
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.
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. For context, 7% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for Better Uptime Bot.
Insights for Better Uptime Bot
As of October 30, 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.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From Better Uptime Bot?
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.
Does Better Uptime Bot Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. Better Uptime Bot is not expected to follow robots.txt rules, 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.
Is Better Uptime Bot Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. Better Uptime Bot is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking Better Uptime Bot Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. Better Uptime Bot's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
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.
How Can I Verify a Request From Better Uptime Bot?
Agent Analytics tracks Better Uptime Bot visits in real time. 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.
How Is Better Uptime Bot Different From Other Better Stack Agents?
Better Stack operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- Better Uptime: Better Uptime is a developer helper operated by Better Stack.