BotScope
BotScope is assigned to the Monitor category by BotScope. Detection is based on the user-agent string. Current pattern:
botscope\w*/\d
BotScope is our own service — and yes, we occasionally show up in your logs. When you configure a domain in BotScope we fetch your sitemap.xml for the sitemap reconciliation and your /robots.txt for the robots check. We also crawl public bot documentation pages quarterly to detect changes (UA-string change-detection).
Active UAs:
- Botscope/1.0 (+https://botscope.acoonia.com) — sitemap fetcher
- Botscope/1.0 (+https://botscope.acoonia.com) robots-checker — robots.txt checker
- Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; BotScopeChangeDetect/1.0; +https://botscope.acoonia.com) — bot doc monitor
All BotScope requests honour robots.txt and come from our Hetzner server IP. You can of course block us — but then you lose the sitemap/robots audit features in the tool.
Uptime and availability monitors typically poll / or a health-check endpoint every 1-5 minutes. High hit counts are normal and harmless, but should be analyzed separately from real bot traffic.
Once BotScope shows up in your logs, BotScope lets you analyze its crawl paths, status codes, IP distribution and temporal activity — by hour, day or week.
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