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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 25 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.

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.