Bot signals · AI crawler & agent
What is Atlassian Rovo web crawler?
Atlassian’s custom website connector crawls and indexes a website so its pages show up in Atlassian search results and can be used in Rovo Chat and Agents. Atlassian says it can only crawl secure (https) websites its customer owns, and it can sign in to sites with basic or form authentication.
01 · Profile
Atlassian Rovo web crawler at a glance.
What to look for in your logs, and what the lookup API returns for its addresses.
- Type
- AI crawler & agent
- robots.txt
User-agent: atlassian-bot- API flag
risk.is_airisk.is_crawler
A user agent alone never sets a flag. Anyone can claim to be Atlassian Rovo web crawler; the flag follows the address the request comes from.
02 · In the response
What a match looks like.
A lookup of a Atlassian Rovo web crawler address sets risk.is_ai and risk.is_crawler. The flags come with geolocation and network data in the same response, for API keys on every paid plan.
This is AI crawling or retrieval traffic, so it counts as both AI traffic and crawler traffic.
The response says which kind of bot an address belongs to, not which operator. A request that claims to be Atlassian Rovo web crawler while risk.is_ai is false should not be trusted as Atlassian Rovo web crawler.
{
// … location and network fields …
"risk": {
"is_ai": true,
"is_crawler": true,
"is_scanner": false
}
}
03 · Control
Allow or block Atlassian Rovo web crawler.
User-agent: atlassian-bot Disallow: /
To enforce it
- robots.txt is a request. Well-behaved bots follow it; impostors using its name don’t.
- Firewall, WAF or CDN. Many offer bot rules you can allow or deny by category. Use them to enforce what robots.txt only asks for.
- In your app. Look up the client address and allow or deny on
risk.is_ai / risk.is_crawler, alongside the user agent. - Never on the user agent alone. Blocking the name stops only honest clients; allowing it lets anyone in who borrows it.
04 · Questions
About Atlassian Rovo web crawler.
What is Atlassian Rovo web crawler?
Atlassian’s custom website connector crawls and indexes a website so its pages show up in Atlassian search results and can be used in Rovo Chat and Agents. Atlassian says it can only crawl secure (https) websites its customer owns, and it can sign in to sites with basic or form authentication.
How do I block Atlassian Rovo web crawler?
Add a robots.txt rule for atlassian-bot. Atlassian’s connector follows the Allow and Disallow rules you add under User-agent: atlassian-bot. To keep single pages out of its index, Atlassian also suggests a noindex robots meta tag. To enforce a block rather than request one, deny it at your firewall, WAF or CDN.
Can I trust a request that says it is Atlassian Rovo web crawler?
Not on the user agent alone: any client can send a bot’s name in its user agent. A user agent alone never sets a flag. Check the address with the free bot checker or the lookup API.
Which risk flag does Atlassian Rovo web crawler set?
Its addresses set risk.is_ai and risk.is_crawler in the lookup response. The risk flags come with every paid plan.
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Recognise Atlassian Rovo web crawler on every request.
is_ai, is_crawler and is_scanner in every lookup, on every paid plan, from 9,00 € a month (VAT included).