Monitrova Bot

What it does

Monitrova runs three automated checks against monitored websites:

• Uptime probe — an HTTP GET to the site's URL, typically every 1–30 minutes depending on plan.
• SSL inspection — a daily TLS handshake to read the certificate chain and expiry.
• Homepage audit — a daily fetch of the homepage to check title, meta, canonical, and robots directives.

User-Agent

Monitrova/1.0 (+https://monitrova.com/bot)

Source IPs

All requests originate from one of the following addresses (IPv4 and IPv6 /64):

178.104.217.230
2a01:4f8:c014:7045::/64

This list is also published in plain text at /bot/ips.txt for automated verification.

Reverse-DNS resolves to bot.monitrova.com.

Verifying a request is from Monitrova

dig +short -x <client-ip>       # → bot.monitrova.com.
dig +short bot.monitrova.com     # → original IP

robots.txt

MonitrovaBot does not respect robots.txt. Uptime monitors are invoked by the site owner on their own site, so they are not subject to crawl exclusion. If you do not want Monitrova checking a site you control, remove it from your Monitrova account.

Request frequency

Uptime probes run at the cadence set by the site's plan — every 30 minutes on Free, 10 minutes on Starter, 1 minute on Pro. SSL and homepage checks run once per 12–24 hours per site (also plan-driven).

Allow or block

Cloudflare: add an IP Access Rule for the address above (Security → WAF → Tools → IP Access Rules), or a Custom Rule with (http.user_agent contains "Monitrova") and action "Skip".

Other WAFs / firewalls: allow the IP above on port 80 and 443, or filter by User-Agent substring Monitrova.

To block entirely, simply deny the IP.

Contact

hello​@monitrova.com

Last updated: 2026-04-24