What is Uptime?
Uptime.com monitoring probe conducts HTTP requests to test website availability, performance, and response times from global locations, providing real-time uptime monitoring and alerting for web services. You can set up Agent Analytics to see when Uptime visits your website.
Overview
| Operated By | Uptime |
| Source | Official Website |
| Expected To Follow Robots.txt | No |
| Insights Last Updated | September 14, 2026 |
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Expected Behavior
Uptime'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.
Uptime's User Agent
| User Agent | DigitalOcean Uptime Probe 0.28.0 (https://digitalocean.com) |
How To Block Uptime With Robots.txt
Add this rule to your robots.txt file to request that Uptime 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: Uptime # https://knownagents.com/agents/uptime
Disallow: /Insights for Uptime
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 Uptime in their robots.txts.
Overall Developer Helper Traffic
0.8% of all web traffic came from developer helpers.
Top Visited Website Categories
The types of websites most frequently visited by Uptime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Should I Block Uptime?
Only if no one on your team relies on it. Uptime 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 Uptime.
Does Uptime Follow Robots.txt Rules?
No. Uptime 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 Uptime Access Private Content?
Only when configured with access. A team may grant Uptime credentials to monitor staging sites or private health endpoints. Without those credentials, it sees only public pages.
How Can I Tell if Uptime Is Visiting My Website?
Agent Analytics tracks Uptime visits in real time. You can also check your server logs for requests whose user-agent string contains "Uptime". Look for repeated checks of the same pages or endpoints at regular intervals. Because Uptime does not publish a verification method, any client can claim its identity and a log match is only a clue.
Why Is Uptime Visiting My Website?
Someone, most likely on your own team, configured Uptime to check your site. Uptime monitors, performance testers, and audit tools visit only the sites or endpoints they are told to watch.