HetrixTools is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by HetrixTools Inc.
HetrixTools offers an Uptime Monitoring service, where our monitoring locations (bots) will check whether our users' websites are online or not. Similar to more known services such as Pingdom or UptimeRobot.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
HetrixTools identifies itself with this user agent string:
HetrixTools Uptime Monitoring Bot. https://hetrix.tools/uptime-monitoring-bot.htmlAnyone can copy a user agent string. Transfon Security also checks where each request comes from, so a request that claims to be a known crawler but comes from the wrong network is treated as a fake, not as the real crawler.
We have not confirmed whether HetrixTools follows robots.txt. Add a rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: HetrixTools Disallow: /
User-agent: HetrixTools Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: HetrixTools Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: HetrixTools Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: HetrixTools group, HetrixTools ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.HetrixTools from HetrixTools's user agent; check HetrixTools Inc's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.
Allow HetrixTools if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersHetrixTools is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow HetrixTools only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf HetrixTools is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.
Transfon Security for SaaS and APIsrobots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows HetrixTools by name in the Top Bots report, so you can see how often it visits and which pages it reads. Block or allow it with a User Agent rule, or slow it down with a rate limit decision rule.
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HetrixTools is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by HetrixTools Inc. HetrixTools offers an Uptime Monitoring service, where our monitoring locations (bots) will check whether our users' websites are online or not. Similar to more known services such as Pingdom or UptimeRobot.
We have not confirmed whether HetrixTools follows robots.txt. Add a robots.txt rule, then check your logs to see that it stopped, and block it by user agent if it did not.
Add "User-agent: HetrixTools" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "HetrixTools" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so HetrixTools may not follow it, and anyone can send HetrixTools's user agent, so a fake HetrixTools ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.
Monitoring bots check uptime, performance and page changes on behalf of a site owner or a third party. Allow the services you run yourself and exclude them from analytics so they do not inflate page views.
Transfon Security identifies every bot in this directory in your traffic reports, flags fake search crawlers, and lets you allow, block or rate limit each bot.
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