Datadog Synthetic
Synthetic monitoring bot testing APIs and collecting uptime data
About this crawler
Datadog Synthetic is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Datadog Synthetic in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Datadog Synthetic traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
0.065%
Technical details
- Name
- Datadog Synthetic
- Pattern
Datadog Synthetic- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://docs.datadoghq.com/synthetics/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Datadog Synthetic
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Datadog Synthetic:
User-agent: Datadog Synthetic
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Datadog Synthetic [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Datadog Synthetic") {
return 403;
}
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