KargoBot-Artemis is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Kargo.
KargoBot-Artemis is Kargo's autonomous content verification bot. It's a simulation of a user on an iOS device. The bot is used to scan sites for content that may be unsuitable for customers on the Kargo ad 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.
KargoBot-Artemis identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 13_2_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/13.0.3 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1 (compatible; KargoBot-Artemis-Mobile; +https://www.kargo.com/kargobot-artemis)Anyone 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 KargoBot-Artemis 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: KargoBot-Artemis Disallow: /
User-agent: KargoBot-Artemis Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: KargoBot-Artemis Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: KargoBot-Artemis Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: KargoBot-Artemis group, KargoBot-Artemis ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.KargoBot-Artemis from KargoBot-Artemis's user agent; check Kargo'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 KargoBot-Artemis if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersKargoBot-Artemis is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow KargoBot-Artemis only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf KargoBot-Artemis 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 KargoBot-Artemis 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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KargoBot-Artemis is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Kargo. KargoBot-Artemis is Kargo's autonomous content verification bot. It's a simulation of a user on an iOS device. The bot is used to scan sites for content that may be unsuitable for customers on the Kargo ad network.
We have not confirmed whether KargoBot-Artemis 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: KargoBot-Artemis" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "KargoBot-Artemis" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so KargoBot-Artemis may not follow it, and anyone can send KargoBot-Artemis's user agent, so a fake KargoBot-Artemis 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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