What is Logicmonitor?

Logicmonitor is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by LogicMonitor.

Bot name
Logicmonitor
Operator
LogicMonitor
Type
Bot
Respects robots.txt
Not confirmed
robots.txt user agent
LogicMonitor
Signs requests (Web Bot Auth)
No

About Logicmonitor

The logicmonitor bot performs synthetic monitoring checks on websites and online services to test their availability and performance.

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.

Logicmonitor user agent

Logicmonitor identifies itself with this user agent string:

  • LogicMonitor SiteMonitor/1.0

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.

How to block Logicmonitor in robots.txt

We have not confirmed whether Logicmonitor 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.

Block Logicmonitor from the whole site

User-agent: LogicMonitor
Disallow: /

Block Logicmonitor from some folders

User-agent: LogicMonitor
Disallow: /private/
Disallow: /search

Allow Logicmonitor only on some folders

User-agent: LogicMonitor
Allow: /blog/
Disallow: /

Allow Logicmonitor and block other crawlers

User-agent: LogicMonitor
Allow: /

User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Things to know

  • Each host needs its own file. Rules on www.example.com do not apply to shop.example.com.
  • A crawler obeys only the most specific group that names it. Once you add a User-agent: LogicMonitor group, Logicmonitor ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.
  • The user agent name is not case sensitive. We take LogicMonitor from Logicmonitor's user agent; check LogicMonitor's own documentation if it publishes a different robots.txt name.
  • Crawlers cache robots.txt, so changes can take up to a day to apply. Disallow stops crawling but does not remove pages already collected or indexed.

Limits of robots.txt

  1. Logicmonitor may not follow the rule. robots.txt is a request that nothing enforces, and we have not confirmed that Logicmonitor follows it. Check your logs after adding a rule.
  2. The user agent could be fake. robots.txt matches the name a request claims. Anyone can send Logicmonitor's user agent, and a scraper using it is not bound by LogicMonitor's robots.txt policy. Only checking the source network tells a real Logicmonitor from a fake one.

Treat robots.txt as a statement of your policy, and enforce it where requests arrive.

Who should care about Logicmonitor

Publishers

Allow Logicmonitor if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.

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Media buyers and advertisers

Logicmonitor is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.

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E-commerce

Allow Logicmonitor only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.

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SaaS and APIs

If Logicmonitor is a service you use, allow it on the endpoints it needs and block it elsewhere.

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Block Logicmonitor with Transfon Security

robots.txt is a request, not an enforcement. Transfon Security shows Logicmonitor 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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Control Logicmonitor on your site

  • See every Logicmonitor visit and the pages it reads
  • Spot bots that fake trusted crawler names
  • Block, allow or rate limit Logicmonitor with one rule
  • Works with or without robots.txt support

Frequently asked questions

What is Logicmonitor?

Logicmonitor is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by LogicMonitor. The logicmonitor bot performs synthetic monitoring checks on websites and online services to test their availability and performance.

Does Logicmonitor respect robots.txt?

We have not confirmed whether Logicmonitor 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.

How do I block Logicmonitor?

Add "User-agent: LogicMonitor" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "LogicMonitor SiteMonitor/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.

Is robots.txt enough to block Logicmonitor?

No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Logicmonitor may not follow it, and anyone can send Logicmonitor's user agent, so a fake Logicmonitor ignores your rule. Enforce the rule where requests arrive, at your WAF, and check the source network.

Should I block Logicmonitor?

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.

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