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Uptimepage Bot

Last updated: 2026-08-17

If you found this page in your server logs, our bot requested a page on your site. This page explains what it is, why it happened, and how to stop it.

What It Is

Uptimepage is an uptime monitoring service. Someone using our service configured a check against a URL on your site. Every few seconds or minutes, we request that URL and record whether it responded, how fast, and with what status code. That is the whole job.

Every request we make was configured by a person. We do not discover sites on our own, and we do not crawl.

How to Identify It

Our probes send a User-Agent that names us and links back to this page:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; uptimepage/1.1.0; +https://uptimepage.dev/bot)

The version number changes as we release. The uptimepage/ token and the link do not.

The Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; …) prefix is the long-standing convention for well-behaved automated clients, and it is what many CDNs read before deciding whether to compress a response. It claims no browser engine: match on uptimepage/ and you will always find us.

If you allowlisted us before 2026-08-17, check your rule

Until that date this page said our User-Agent starts with uptimepage/, and it did. It now begins with the Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; …) prefix, so the uptimepage/ token sits in the middle of the string rather than at the front.

A rule written as "starts with" or ^uptimepage/ no longer matches, which means an exemption you set up for us has quietly stopped applying. Change it to a contains match on uptimepage/. Everything below already assumes that form.

We are sorry for the churn. If your monitor started failing around that date for no reason you could find on your side, this is the first thing to check.

What It Does and Does Not Do

We request the exact URL that was configured. Nothing else.

How often a check runs is set by the customer within the limits of their plan. Most checks run about once a minute.

robots.txt

We do not read your robots.txt, and we want to be straightforward about why.

robots.txt is a protocol for crawlers, which discover and index pages on their own. We are not a crawler. We fetch a single URL that a person explicitly asked us to watch, and monitoring is usually the thing that person most wants to keep working. Blocking it in robots.txt would silently break their monitoring rather than protect you.

If you do not want us requesting a URL on your site, the ways to stop it are below and they work regardless of robots.txt.

Where the Requests Come From

We probe from multiple regions around the world. The current region list is on our probe regions page.

Our outbound IP addresses are not guaranteed to be static and can change without notice. Do not build an IP allowlist from observed addresses; checks from other regions would still be blocked. If you need a static IP allowlist, email us and we will work one out with you.

How to Allowlist Us

Allowlist by User-Agent. Match requests whose User-Agent contains uptimepage/, and let them through your WAF, rate limiter, or bot protection.

This is worth doing. If your WAF challenges or blocks our probes, the person monitoring your site sees failures that look like an outage on your side when nothing is actually wrong.

If You Did Not Authorise This

Anyone can type a URL into our service, including a URL on a site they do not own. If you did not authorise monitoring of your site and you want it to stop, tell us and we will block it.

Email hello@uptimepage.dev with the subject [ABUSE] and include:

  1. The URL or domain being requested
  2. That you are the owner or operator of it

We will block the target so it cannot be monitored through our service. You do not need to prove ownership for us to act on a straightforward request to stop probing a domain.

Unauthorised monitoring is a violation of our Abuse Policy.

Reporting a Problem

If our bot is behaving badly, requesting too often, ignoring what is written on this page, or causing you load, email hello@uptimepage.dev and we will look into it.

Contact

hello@uptimepage.dev