Pingdom

monitoring [pP]ingdom

Pingdom website monitoring web crawler

About this crawler

Pingdom is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern [pP]ingdom in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Pingdom 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: Pingdom
2026-05-012026-06-040.17%

Technical details

Name
Pingdom
Pattern
[pP]ingdom
Tags
monitoring
Reference
http://www.pingdom.com
Added
2017/09/16
rDNS suffixes
.pingdom.com, .pingdom.net
Instances
9 known sample(s)

rDNS verification (FCrDNS)

Verify a request is genuinely Pingdom 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.

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/59.0.3071.109 Chrome/59.0.3071.109 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Pingdom.com_bot_version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/61.0.3163.100 Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; +http://www.pingdom.com/)
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.1 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.3.2 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.5 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.3.15 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) browser/2020.2.0 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.1.7 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) renderer/2020.2.0 Chrome/78.0.3904.130 Electron/7.1.7 Safari/537.36 PingdomTMS/2020.2
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/61.0.3163.100 Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36 PingdomPageSpeed/1.0 (pingbot/2.0; http://www.pingdom.com/)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Pingdom:

User-agent: Pingdom Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

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

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "[pP]ingdom") { return 403; }
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