GomezAgent
Legacy Compuware Gomez APM synthetic monitoring recorder
About this crawler
GomezAgent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern GomezAgent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block GomezAgent 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
- GomezAgent
- Pattern
GomezAgent- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://www.compuware.com/
- Added
- 2026/05/02
- rDNS suffixes
.dynatrace.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely GomezAgent 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
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; GomezAgent 3.0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1916.153 Safari/537.36
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow GomezAgent:
User-agent: GomezAgent
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} GomezAgent [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "GomezAgent") {
return 403;
}
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