BinaryCanary
Uptime monitoring for servers and services
About this crawler
BinaryCanary is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern BinaryCanary in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block BinaryCanary traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- BinaryCanary
- Pattern
BinaryCanary- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.binarycanary.com/monitoring/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
BinaryCanary/1.0 (+https://www.binarycanary.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow BinaryCanary:
User-agent: BinaryCanary
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} BinaryCanary [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "BinaryCanary") {
return 403;
}
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