What is monitis?
monitis is an HTTP monitoring probe that performs website uptime and performance monitoring for TeamViewer's remote management platform, checking web services for availability and response times. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when monitis visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | TeamViewer |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
monitis'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.
How To Block monitis With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that monitis 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: monitis # https://knownagents.com/agents/monitis
Disallow: /Insights for monitis
As of September 14, 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
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
6% of top websites block monitis in their robots.txts.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
0.8% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block monitis?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. monitis may support uptime monitoring, performance tests, or audits. Blocking it without checking first can silently disrupt those workflows. For context, 6% of the top websites we track currently have robots.txt rules for monitis.
Does monitis Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. monitis 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.
Does monitis Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant monitis credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Tell if monitis Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks monitis visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "monitis". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because monitis does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is monitis Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured monitis to check your site. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools visit only the sites or endpoints they are told to watch.