EdgePingBot

Website Uptime & Performance Monitoring Bot

User Agent: EdgePingBot/1.0 (+https://edge-ping.com/bot)

What is EdgePingBot?

EdgePingBot is an automated monitoring service that checks website availability and performance. It performs regular health checks to ensure websites are online and responding correctly.

What does it do?

HTTP HEAD Requests: Makes lightweight requests to check website availability
Response Time Monitoring: Measures how quickly your site responds
Status Code Checks: Verifies your site returns proper HTTP status codes
Uptime Tracking: Monitors website availability 24/7
Incident Detection: Alerts when websites go down or respond slowly

Technical Details

Property	Value
User Agent	`EdgePingBot/1.0 (+https://edge-ping.com/bot)`
Request Method	`HEAD` (lightweight, no content downloaded)
Check Frequency	Every 60 seconds (verified sites only)
Request Timeout	5 seconds
Follows Redirects	Yes (follows 301/302 redirects)
IPv4/IPv6	Both supported

Why am I seeing this bot?

You're seeing EdgePingBot in your server logs because someone has added your website to Edge-Ping for monitoring. This means they want to track your website's uptime and receive alerts if it goes down.

Note: Only verified website owners can monitor their sites. Users must prove ownership via DNS TXT record verification before monitoring begins.

How to whitelist EdgePingBot

If you want to allow EdgePingBot while blocking other bots, you can whitelist it by user agent or IP addresses.

Cloudflare WAF Rule

(http.user_agent contains "EdgePingBot")

Nginx Configuration

# Allow EdgePingBot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "EdgePingBot") {
    set $bot_allowed 1;
}

Apache .htaccess

# Allow EdgePingBot
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} EdgePingBot [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [L]

robots.txt

User-agent: EdgePingBot
Allow: /

Request Headers

EdgePingBot sends minimal, standard HTTP headers:

User-Agent: EdgePingBot/1.0 (+https://edge-ping.com/bot)
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br
Connection: keep-alive

Should I block this bot?

No, you should not block EdgePingBot if:

You own the website and want uptime monitoring
Your team uses Edge-Ping for monitoring
You want to ensure your site is accessible to monitoring services

Consider blocking if:

You don't recognize this service and didn't authorize monitoring
You see excessive requests (contact us if this happens)

Rate Limiting

EdgePingBot is respectful of server resources:

1 request per minute maximum per website
Uses lightweight HEAD requests (no page content downloaded)
5-second timeout prevents hanging connections
Only monitors verified websites (DNS ownership required)

Privacy & Data Collection

EdgePingBot collects only the following data:

HTTP status code
Response time
Timestamp of check
Whether the site is up or down

We do NOT collect:

Page content
Visitor information
Cookies or tracking data
Personal information

Transparency & Ethical Use

We believe in complete transparency about how Edge-Ping operates:

Open Source Spirit: Our monitoring methodology is fully documented on this page
Honest User Agent: We identify ourselves clearly as EdgePingBot (never disguise as a browser)
Verified Ownership: We only monitor websites after DNS verification proves ownership
No Hidden Tracking: We collect only what's documented (status codes, response times)
Minimal Impact: 1 request per minute maximum, using lightweight HEAD requests
Clear Purpose: Uptime monitoring only - not content scraping or analysis

This tool is designed for:

✅ Monitoring websites you own or manage
✅ Uptime tracking with proper authorization
✅ Service level monitoring for your customers

This tool is NOT for:

❌ Monitoring websites without permission
❌ Content scraping or data extraction
❌ Competitive intelligence gathering
❌ Any form of unauthorized surveillance

What We Monitor (and Don't)

We DO monitor:

HTTP status codes (200, 404, 500, etc.)
Response times (milliseconds)
Whether your site is reachable
Uptime/downtime periods

We DO NOT monitor:

Page content or HTML
User behavior or visitor data
Form submissions or user interactions
Cookies, sessions, or authentication states
Analytics or traffic patterns
Database queries or backend operations

Contact & Support

If you have questions or concerns about EdgePingBot:

Website: edge-ping.com
Email: [email protected]
Report abuse: [email protected]

For Website Owners

Want to monitor your own website? Visit edge-ping.com to set up free uptime monitoring with EdgePingBot.