AppInsights

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Non-Compliant

What is AppInsights?

About

Azure Monitor Application Insights is an OpenTelemetry feature of Azure Monitor that offers application performance monitoring (APM) for live web applications. Integrating with OpenTelemetry (OTel) provides a vendor-neutral approach to collecting and analyzing telemetry data, enabling comprehensive observability of your applications.

Operator

Microsoft

Documentationdocs.microsoft.com

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Did you find Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; AppInsights) in your logs?

If you've seen Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; AppInsights) in your website logs, it indicates that AppInsights has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/5.0; AppInsights)

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block AppInsights?

This bot is marked as non-compliant, which may mean it doesn't respect robots.txt or engages in aggressive crawling behavior. You may want to consider blocking it if it's causing issues for your site.

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How Do I Block AppInsights?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

AppInsightsShould match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block AppInsights

User-agent: AppInsights
Disallow: /

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