RuxitSynthetic
Dynatrace Ruxit synthetic web crawler
About this crawler
RuxitSynthetic is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern RuxitSynthetic in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block RuxitSynthetic traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- RuxitSynthetic
- Pattern
RuxitSynthetic- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://docs.dynatrace.com/docs/observe/digital-experience/synthetic-monitoring/browser-monitors/configure-browser-monitors
- Added
- 2023/02/16
- rDNS suffixes
.dynatrace.com- Instances
- 3 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely RuxitSynthetic 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
RuxitSynthetic/1.0
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 RuxitSynthetic/1.0 v0 t0 ath0 alt0 cfeatureHash=7efgijmoqtvx caes=1 ccux=1 sia=1 smf=1
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 RuxitSynthetic/1.0 v0 t0 cfeatureHash=7efgijmoqtvx caes=1 ccux=1 sia=1 smf=1
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow RuxitSynthetic:
User-agent: RuxitSynthetic
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} RuxitSynthetic [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "RuxitSynthetic") {
return 403;
}
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