Probe identity

StackWitness monitor bot

We independently ping public service hosts for reachability and also read vendor status pages. We do not scrape private data, do not authenticate, and do not perform side-effecting requests.

Who we are

StackWitness is an independent dependency-status product. Our multi-region probes measure whether a vendor's public API host answers HTTP. That is reachability, not a claim that the full product is healthy.

User-Agent we send on every probe and status-feed fetch:

StackWitness-Monitor/1.0 (+https://stackwitness.com/bot)

Why we probe

GET only, no request body, no authentication, no credentials
Low frequency: about once every 5 minutes from a small set of regions
Public hosts only (API roots and documented public endpoints)
We discard response bodies; we keep status code and latency for classification
We also read public vendor status-page JSON feeds, separately from the service ping

How to allowlist us

If you operate a host we probe and want us in an allowlist or rate-limit exception:

Match User-Agent containing StackWitness-Monitor
Or allow the documented User-Agent string above
Email hello@stackwitness.com with your host and preferred policy

Contact and abuse

Questions, allowlist requests, or abuse reports: hello@stackwitness.com.

Please include the target host, approximate time (UTC), and any log lines showing our User-Agent.