kube-probe
Kubernetes liveness probe
About this crawler
kube-probe is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern kube-probe in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block kube-probe traffic in your web server, CDN edge rules, or robots.txt.
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Technical details
- Name
- kube-probe
- Pattern
kube-probe- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://kubernetes.io/
- Added
- 2026/05/09
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
kube-probe/1.9+
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow kube-probe:
User-agent: kube-probe
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} kube-probe [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "kube-probe") {
return 403;
}
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