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CensysInspectBot

Censys Inspect is a web crawler operated by Censys that performs internet-wide scanning to discover, monitor, and analyze publicly accessible devices and services.
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What is CensysInspectBot?

CensysInspectBot is Censys's monitoring bot. Censys Inspect is a web crawler operated by Censys that performs internet-wide scanning to discover, monitor, and analyze publicly accessible devices and services. The crawler follows best practices, only accesses public-facing services, and respects robots.txt directives.

CensysInspectBot is an operational bot rather than an AI crawler, so it does not directly affect whether you appear in AI answers. It still shows up in your logs, and bots like it help keep your site healthy and crawlable, which indirectly supports both SEO and AI visibility.

Like any automated client, CensysInspectBot consumes crawl budget and appears in your server and CDN logs. Reviewing those logs alongside your robots.txt rules helps you keep automated traffic deliberate and easy to reason about.

Want to see every AI bot hitting your site? Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic, so you can watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and others crawl your pages and connect those visits to real citations and revenue. Learn more in AI crawler logs.

See every AI bot hitting your site

Promptwatch turns your server and CDN logs into a live view of AI crawler and agent traffic. Watch ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and more crawl your pages in real time, see exactly what they take, and connect every crawl to the citations and revenue it drives.

How to handle CensysInspectBot

Whether to allow CensysInspectBot depends on whether you rely on the service behind it. Use a robots.txt rule to allow or disallow it.

To control CensysInspectBot, add a rule for its user agent to your robots.txt:

User-agent: CensysInspectBot
Disallow: /

CensysInspectBot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

  • A site owner spots CensysInspectBot in access logs and confirms it against the operator's documented user agent.
  • An operations team allows CensysInspectBot so the service it powers keeps working as expected.

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CensysInspectBot is operated by Censys. It functions as Censys's monitoring bot.

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