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What EveToolsStatusBot does, and how to whitelist it if you run one of the monitored tools.

What this is

EVE Tools Status is an independent, non-commercial availability monitor for 27 EVE Online community tools. It exists so capsuleers can quickly see whether a tool is down for everyone or just for them. It is made by ZanReal and is not affiliated with CCP Games or any of the monitored projects. The source code is public: github.com/zanreal-labs/eve-tools-status.

How we check

• One GET request per tool every 15 minutes from each of 4 regions: US East (iad1), US West (sfo1), Europe (fra1), Oceania (syd1) — all Vercel infrastructure.
• That is 16 requests per tool per hour, ~384 per day. We fetch a single, fixed URL per tool (see Monitors) — no crawling, no link following, no login attempts.
• Timeout 10s; HTTP status 200–399 counts as up. We store only the status code and response time — never response bodies.

User-Agent

Every request identifies itself with:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; EveToolsStatusBot/1.0; +https://eve-tools-status.com/docs)

Whitelisting

Our probes come from Vercel datacenter IPs, which bot-protection products often challenge or block — the tool then shows as down here even though it is fine for players. If you run a monitored tool, an allow rule on the User-Agent token fixes it:

Cloudflare (WAF custom rule with the Skip action):

(http.user_agent contains "EveToolsStatusBot")

nginx:

if ($http_user_agent ~ "EveToolsStatusBot") {
    # exempt from rate limiting / bot rules
}

We do not fetch robots.txt because we only request one fixed URL that you can inspect on the Monitors page — but if you prefer we not check your service at all, use the form below and we will remove it.

Contact

For takedown requests, whitelisting questions, or suggesting a different health endpoint for your tool, use the form below or reach us via zanreal.com/contact.