SentinelBot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by rootstuff.
Uptime monitoring bot. Checks website availability, SSL, and response times from multiple global regions.
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.
SentinelBot identifies itself with this user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; SentinelBot/1.0; +https://sentinel.rootstuff.io/bot)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.
SentinelBot follows robots.txt, so these rules stop it crawling the paths you choose. robots.txt is a plain text file at the root of your domain, such as https://example.com/robots.txt.
User-agent: SentinelBot Disallow: /
User-agent: SentinelBot Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: SentinelBot Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: SentinelBot Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: SentinelBot group, SentinelBot ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.SentinelBot from SentinelBot's user agent; check rootstuff'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 SentinelBot if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersSentinelBot is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow SentinelBot only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf SentinelBot 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 SentinelBot 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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SentinelBot is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by rootstuff. Uptime monitoring bot. Checks website availability, SSL, and response times from multiple global regions.
Yes. SentinelBot follows robots.txt, so a Disallow rule for the SentinelBot user agent stops it from crawling the paths you list.
Add "User-agent: SentinelBot" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "SentinelBot" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so SentinelBot may not follow it, and anyone can send SentinelBot's user agent, so a fake SentinelBot 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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