Splunk
Splunk monitoring and analytics
About this crawler
Splunk is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Splunk in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Splunk 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
- Splunk
- Pattern
Splunk- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://knownagents.com/agents/splunk
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- rDNS suffixes
.splunk.com,.splunkcloud.com- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
rDNS verification (FCrDNS)
Verify a request is genuinely Splunk 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.
.splunk.com.splunkcloud.com
Sample User-Agent strings
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Splunk/1.0.0; https://splunk.com)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Splunk:
User-agent: Splunk
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Splunk [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Splunk") {
return 403;
}
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