Who operates OhDearBot?

OhDearBot is operated by Oh Dear. It functions as Oh Dear's monitoring bot.

Does OhDearBot respect robots.txt?

Yes. OhDearBot generally follows robots.txt directives, so you can allow or disallow it with a rule for its user agent.

Should I block OhDearBot?

It depends on whether you rely on the service behind OhDearBot. If you do, keep it allowed; otherwise you can disallow it in robots.txt.

OhDearBot - What It Is & How to Handle It

What is OhDearBot?

OhDearBot is Oh Dear's monitoring bot. OhDearBot is a monitoring bot operated by Oh Dear that performs uptime checks, broken link detection, and mixed content scanning. The bot follows standard crawling practices and throttles requests to minimize server impact.

OhDearBot 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, OhDearBot 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.

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How to handle OhDearBot

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

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

User-agent: OhDearBot
Disallow: /

OhDearBot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

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