AppInsights

monitoring AppInsights

Microsoft AppInsights web crawler bot

About this crawler

AppInsights is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern AppInsights in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block AppInsights traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: AppInsights
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
AppInsights
Pattern
AppInsights
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app-insights-overview
Added
2019/03/09
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; AppInsights)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow AppInsights:

User-agent: AppInsights Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} AppInsights [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "AppInsights") { return 403; }
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