StatusCake
Website monitoring service tracking uptime and page speed globally.
What is StatusCake?
StatusCake is a website monitoring service that tracks uptime, page speed, and SSL certificate validity from multiple global locations. It provides alerts when issues are detected and historical performance data for trend analysis.
The bot makes periodic HTTP requests to verify site availability and measure response times. It identifies itself with "StatusCake" in the user-agent string and operates from known IP ranges worldwide.
Like other monitoring services, StatusCake traffic is intentionally configured by site owners. It generates minimal bandwidth and provides valuable operational intelligence about site reliability.
User-Agent Strings
These are the known user-agent patterns used by StatusCake. Use them to identify this crawler in your server logs or configure robots.txt rules.
robots.txt example:
User-agent: StatusCake Disallow: /private/ Allow: /
How to Manage StatusCake
Never block — it monitors your site on your behalf.
Minimal bandwidth consumption.
Whitelist monitoring IPs for cleaner analytics in Switch.
Useful for correlating bot traffic spikes with performance issues.
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