Blackbox Exporter
Prometheus monitoring crawler checking endpoint health
About this crawler
Blackbox Exporter is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Blackbox Exporter\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Blackbox Exporter traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Blackbox Exporter
- Pattern
Blackbox Exporter\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://github.com/prometheus/blackbox_exporter
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Blackbox Exporter/0.20.0-rc.0
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Blackbox Exporter:
User-agent: Blackbox Exporter
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Blackbox Exporter\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Blackbox Exporter\\/") {
return 403;
}
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