SentryBoy

I've been wondering why my fly machines weren't auto-suspending after I added #sentry to a project. From the logs, I could see / was being requested every second... Smells like a bot.

So I added more logging to catch the user-agent from request headers, and was surprised to see the following:

user-agent: SentryUptimeBot/1.0 (+http://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring/)

I guess #sentry has a new feature (beta) that does a healthcheck on URLs that have thrown exceptions. I need to read the docs more closely, but a GET every second seems a bit excessive. To disable it, I just revised my robots.txt:

User-agent: SentryUptimeBot
Disallow: *

Links #

• https://docs.sentry.io/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring