Watchful1 is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Watchful LLC.
The Watchful monitoring bot is a website monitoring service
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.
Watchful1 identifies itself with this user agent string:
Watchfulli/1.0Anyone 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 Watchful1 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: Watchfulli Disallow: /
User-agent: Watchfulli Disallow: /private/ Disallow: /search
User-agent: Watchfulli Allow: /blog/ Disallow: /
User-agent: Watchfulli Allow: / User-agent: * Disallow: /
User-agent: Watchfulli group, Watchful1 ignores your User-agent: * rules, so repeat any that should still apply.Watchfulli from Watchful1's user agent; check Watchful LLC'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 Watchful1 if it is a service you use, and keep its visits out of page views and ad requests either way.
Transfon Security for publishersWatchful1 is not a person. Exclude it from campaign and conversion data so reports reflect real visitors.
Transfon Security for advertisersAllow Watchful1 only if it works for your store, and keep it away from cart and checkout.
Transfon Security for e-commerceIf Watchful1 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 Watchful1 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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Watchful1 is a bot in the monitoring and analytics bots category, operated by Watchful LLC. The Watchful monitoring bot is a website monitoring service
We have not confirmed whether Watchful1 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: Watchfulli" followed by "Disallow: /" to the robots.txt file at the root of your site. To enforce it, block requests whose user agent contains "Watchfulli/" at your WAF. In Transfon Security that is one User Agent block rule.
No. robots.txt is voluntary, so Watchful1 may not follow it, and anyone can send Watchful1's user agent, so a fake Watchful1 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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