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Uptime Robot

Uptime Robot is a platform for monitoring and alerting on your applications.
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What is Uptime Robot?

Uptime Robot is a monitoring bot. Uptime Robot is a platform for monitoring and alerting on your applications.

Uptime Robot 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, Uptime Robot 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 Uptime Robot

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

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

User-agent: UptimeRobot
Disallow: /

Replace the user-agent token above with the exact string Uptime Robot sends, check the operator's documentation, since display names and user-agent tokens can differ.

Uptime Robot generally honors robots.txt directives.

Examples

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

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Uptime Robot is a monitoring bot; its operator is identified in its user-agent string and public documentation.

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