Rackspace Monitoring
Cloud infrastructure monitoring bot checking endpoint availability
About this crawler
Rackspace Monitoring is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Rackspace Monitoring\/ in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Rackspace Monitoring traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- Rackspace Monitoring
- Pattern
Rackspace Monitoring\/- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://support.rackspace.com/how-to/about-the-rackspace-monitoring-agent/
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Rackspace Monitoring/1.1 (https://monitoring.api.rackspacecloud.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Rackspace Monitoring:
User-agent: Rackspace Monitoring
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Rackspace Monitoring\/ [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Rackspace Monitoring\\/") {
return 403;
}
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