Vigil

monitoring Vigil\/

Vigil web crawler for monitoring

About this crawler

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

Block-rate · top 25k sites

0.065%
latest snapshot
2026-06-04
matched key: Vigil
2026-05-012026-06-040.11%

Technical details

Name
Vigil
Pattern
Vigil\/
Tags
monitoring
Reference
http://vigil-app.com/bot.html
Added
2020/03/16
Instances
1 known sample(s)

Sample User-Agent strings

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Vigil/1.0; +http://vigil-app.com/bot.html)

Block this crawler

robots.txt — disallow Vigil:

User-agent: Vigil Disallow: /

Apache .htaccess — return 403:

RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Vigil\/ [NC] RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:

if ($http_user_agent ~* "Vigil\\/") { return 403; }
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