IXBunny.com Monitoring Bot Information

You have landed on this page because your web server logs indicated a request matching the “IXBunny.com-Monitoring” User-Agent string. This public page explains the purpose of our automated monitoring network, what data it collects, and how it interacts with your websites.

What is IXBunny Monitoring?

IXBunny Monitoring operates a distributed network of automated health-checking nodes. These nodes measure website performance and availability from multiple geographic locations. Our primary goal is to provide website administrators with precise uptime data and core performance metrics to ensure their digital services remain fast and accessible.

What Data Does the Bot Track?

Our monitoring script performs lightweight, standard web requests. The bot only downloads the raw HTML body of the specified target URL and specifically isolates the following telemetry:

• Time to First Byte (TTFB): The time elapsed between the initial request and the receipt of the first byte of data from your web server.
• Full Page Response Time: The total time taken to download the target HTML file itself. The bot does not process or execute JavaScript, nor does it pull secondary assets like stylesheets, images, or fonts.
• Response Size: The payload size in bytes of the returned HTML structure to check for unexpected network drops or compression issues.
• HTTP Response Code: The exact server status code returned for each transaction, allowing us to immediately track successful states, URL redirection behaviors, and server errors.

Our Request Behavior

To ensure we provide accurate data while respecting your server infrastructure, our automated requests follow strict operational guidelines:

• Frequency: Standard monitoring runs on an un-intrusive interval, typically executing once every 60 seconds per target node.
• Cache Auditing: The bot performs a pair of checks during each cycle. One request is sent to the standard URL path, and a secondary verification request appended with a unique timestamp string is sent to measure edge or CDN cache behavior under non-cached conditions.
• Resource Impact: Because our bot drops connections immediately after reading the HTML file and completely ignores secondary asset downloading, the computational and bandwidth impact on your host servers is negligible.

Comprehensive Infrastructure Monitoring

While this web-probing bot represents our baseline external availability suite, IXBunny provides deeper visibility layers for client infrastructure. Depending on the specific service level and deployment scope established with our customers, secondary agents, daemons, and polling tools may be active within the network environment.

These tailored monitoring configurations are deployed directly alongside internal systems to securely capture machine health diagnostics. These internal checks typically include infrastructure metrics such as core processor loading, system memory allocation, disk read/write throughput, system process management, and localized application logging.

Identifying the Bot in Server Logs

All official traffic originating from our infrastructure can be verified in your web traffic logs by inspecting the user-agent header, which will explicitly point back to this informational directory.

If you have further questions regarding our automated performance checks, please contact your account manager or reach out directly to the IXBunny infrastructure team.