DynatraceSynthetic
Dynatrace synthetic monitoring HTTP checks
About this crawler
DynatraceSynthetic is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern DynatraceSynthetic in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block DynatraceSynthetic traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- DynatraceSynthetic
- Pattern
DynatraceSynthetic- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/digital-experience/synthetic-monitoring
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.dynatrace.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely DynatraceSynthetic 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.
.dynatrace.com
Sample User-Agent strings
DynatraceSynthetic/1.179
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow DynatraceSynthetic:
User-agent: DynatraceSynthetic
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} DynatraceSynthetic [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "DynatraceSynthetic") {
return 403;
}
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