What is Odin?
Odin is a web crawler operated by ODIN, an internet scanning search engine platform. The bot scans websites as part of indexing operations that power searches across various datasets including hosts, exposed buckets, exposed files, and subdomains. Agent Analytics can track when it visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | ODIN |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | Yes |
| Insights Last Updated | August 1, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Odin's pattern depends on who pointed it at you. Continuous monitoring services check daily or even hourly, while a one time assessment sweeps once and disappears. Expect requests aimed at login pages, admin paths, APIs, and configuration files, because exposed ones are what scanners exist to find.
Odin's User Agent
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux armv7l) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.5563.146 Odin/111.5563.5.1 Safari/537.36 |
How To Block Odin With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to block Odin from accessing your entire website, or use Automatic Robots.txt to block all security scanners at once. You can customize which pages are blocked by swapping out / for a different path.
User-agent: Odin # https://knownagents.com/agents/odin
Disallow: /Global Insights for Odin
As of August 1, 2026, 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.
Robots.txt Blocked Percentage
Country of Origin
Robots.txt Blocking Trend
0% of top websites block Odin in their robots.txt files.
Overall Security Scanner Traffic
0.1% of all web traffic came from security scanners.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Odin.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Odin?
Not unless you already run your own scanning and want cleaner logs. Odin checks websites for exposed vulnerabilities, and some scanning services report what they find to site owners for free. Almost none of the top websites we track have robots.txt rules for Odin right now.
Does Odin Follow Robots.txt Rules?
Yes. Odin is expected to follow robots.txt rules, so a disallow rule is the right first move. Automatic Robots.txt adds and maintains that rule for you, and Agent Analytics confirms Odin actually follows it.
Does Odin Access Private Content?
It probes for private content deliberately. Login pages, admin panels, and API endpoints are exactly what Odin tests, because exposed ones are what it exists to find. Probing is not the same as getting in, but expect requests to sensitive paths in your logs.
Why Is Odin Visiting My Website?
Odin is scanning your site for vulnerabilities, either as part of a sweep across the whole internet or because someone requested an assessment of your domain. Recurring visits usually mean a monitoring service has you on its list.
How Can I Tell if Odin Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Odin 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 "Odin". Look for probes of login, admin, and API paths. Keep in mind that Odin 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.