Known Agent

monitoring Known Agent

Known Agents test and development bot

About this crawler

Known Agent is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Known Agent in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Known Agent traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.13%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Unknown
2026-05-012026-06-040.29%

Technical details

Name
Known Agent
Pattern
Known Agent
Tags
monitoring
Reference
https://knownagents.com/
Added
2026/04/26
Instances
2 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Known Agent/1.0; +https://knownagents.com)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Known Agents Browser/1.0; +https://knownagents.com)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Known Agent:

User-agent: Known Agent Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Known Agent [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Known Agent") { return 403; }
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