Checkly
Checkly web crawler for monitoring
About this crawler
Checkly is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Checkly in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Checkly traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Checkly
- Pattern
Checkly- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/
- Added
- 2026/02/11
- rDNS suffixes
.checkly.com,.checklyhq.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Checkly with forward-confirmed reverse DNS: the client IP's PTR record must end in one of the suffixes below and a forward A/AAAA lookup of that hostname must return the same IP. UA strings alone are spoofable; FCrDNS is not.
.checkly.com.checklyhq.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/134.0.6998.35 Safari/537.36 (Checkly, https://www.checklyhq.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Checkly:
User-agent: Checkly
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Checkly [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Checkly") {
return 403;
}
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