What is OhDear?
OhDear is a website monitoring bot that checks websites for uptime, performance, and other health metrics. It visits websites to perform regular checks and alert website owners about potential issues or downtime. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when OhDear visits your website.
Category
| Operated By | Oh Dear |
| 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 OhDear Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured OhDear 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 OhDear?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. OhDear 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 OhDear.
Insights for OhDear
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.
Robots.txt Compliance
Country of Origin
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OhDear Traffic
Frequently Asked Questions
What Traffic Patterns Should I Expect From OhDear?
OhDear'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 OhDear Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. OhDear 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 OhDear Used for AI Model Training?
Not ordinarily. OhDear is not categorized as an AI training scraper or data provider, so AI model training is not its expected purpose.
Does Blocking OhDear Affect AI Search or Citations?
Not directly. OhDear's expected purpose is not to supply an AI search index or retrieve pages for AI-generated answers.
Does OhDear Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant OhDear credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Verify a Request From OhDear?
Agent Analytics tracks OhDear visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "OhDear". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because OhDear does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
How Is OhDear Different From Other Oh Dear Agents?
Oh Dear operates separate agents for different purposes, so each agent should be evaluated and controlled independently.
- Oh Dear: Oh Dear is a developer helper operated by Oh Dear.
- OhDear.app: OhDear.app is an all-in-one website monitoring bot that checks uptime, SSL certificates, broken links, performance, DNS records, and application health to ensure optimal …