Rackspace Monitoring
recommended: observeRackspace Monitoring is Rackspace's automated monitoring service that performs HTTP checks, uptime monitoring, and health assessments on customer websites and infrastructure to provide alerts and performance data.
What it does
Rackspace Monitoring's traffic often follows fixed intervals like a cron job. Activity may consist of short recurring checks or occasional intensive bursts, but it usually remains limited to a specific set of pages or endpoints.
How to identify it
User-agent contains any of:
Rackspace Monitoring
robots.txt
Well-behaved crawlers honor robots.txt. To control Rackspace Monitoring:
Allow full access
User-agent: Rackspace Monitoring
Allow: /Block entirely
User-agent: Rackspace Monitoring
Disallow: /
Grey-area scrapers ignore robots.txt. Botscope enforces your policy at the edge or origin regardless —
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