EdgeWatch
Performance monitoring and security assessment bot
About this crawler
EdgeWatch is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern EdgeWatch in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block EdgeWatch traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
No block-rate data for this crawler.
Technical details
- Name
- EdgeWatch
- Pattern
EdgeWatch- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://about.edgewatch.com/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EdgeWatch/1.1; https://about.edgewatch.com/)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow EdgeWatch:
User-agent: EdgeWatch
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EdgeWatch [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "EdgeWatch") {
return 403;
}
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