updown.io
Website monitoring crawler checking availability and performance metrics from locations
About this crawler
updown.io is a web crawler identified by the regular-expression pattern updown\.io in the User-Agent request header. It is categorised as monitoring. Use the regex above to detect, log, allow, or block updown.io 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
- updown.io
- Pattern
updown\.io- Tags
- monitoring
- Reference
- https://updown.io
- Added
- 2026/04/17
- Instances
- 1 known sample(s)
Sample User-Agent strings
updown.io daemon 2.11
Block this crawler
robots.txt — disallow updown.io:
User-agent: updown.io
Disallow: /
Apache .htaccess — return 403:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} updown\.io [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]
Nginx — return 403 inside a server block:
if ($http_user_agent ~* "updown\\.io") {
return 403;
}
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