Watchbot monitoring robot
Watchbot SSL and uptime monitoring
About this crawler
Watchbot monitoring robot is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern Watchbot monitoring robot in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block Watchbot monitoring robot traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
Block-rate · top 25k sites
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Technical details
- Name
- Watchbot monitoring robot
- Pattern
Watchbot monitoring robot- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://watchbot.fflow.net/
- Added
- 2026/04/26
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
Watchbot monitoring robot (https://watchbot.fflow.net)
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow Watchbot monitoring robot:
User-agent: Watchbot monitoring robot
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} Watchbot monitoring robot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "Watchbot monitoring robot") {
return 403;
}
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