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ApacheBench
Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
About this crawler
ApacheBench is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern ApacheBench in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block ApacheBench traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- ApacheBench
- Pattern
ApacheBench- Tags
- monitoring
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
ApacheBench/2.3
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow ApacheBench:
User-agent: ApacheBench
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} ApacheBench [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "ApacheBench") {
return 403;
}
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