atlassian-bot user agent
Operated by Atlassian
atlassian-bot is Atlassian's crawler for AI search, assistants and agents in products such as Rovo.
The atlassian-bot bot at a glance
- atlassian-bot is operated by Atlassian and indexes web pages so an AI search product can show and cite them in answers, and fetches a page when a person asks an AI assistant about it or shares its link.
- The robots.txt token for atlassian-bot is atlassian-bot.
- Blocking an AI search crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings.
- atlassian-bot robots.txt support: Yes.
- Recommendation for Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): Your choice.
What is atlassian-bot?
atlassian-bot fetches public web pages for Atlassian’s AI features.
Public registries report that it follows robots.txt.
Should you block atlassian-bot?
Blocking atlassian-bot is a business decision: it protects your content but can lower how well AI products know your brand.
| Effect on search rankings | Blocking an AI search crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. |
|---|---|
| Effect on AI visibility | Blocking removes your pages from that AI search index, so its answers can no longer cite or link to your website. |
| Follows robots.txt | Yes |
| Recommendation | Your choice |
How to block or allow atlassian-bot
Put the robots.txt rule in the file at the root of every domain and subdomain, for example https://example.com/robots.txt. The token atlassian-bot is matched case-insensitively.
robots.txt: block
# Block atlassian-bot
User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /robots.txt: allow
# Allow atlassian-bot
User-agent: atlassian-bot
Allow: /robots.txt: partial
# Keep atlassian-bot out of private areas only
User-agent: atlassian-bot
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Disallow: /cart/
Disallow: /checkout/
Disallow: /my-account/
Allow: /Nginx
# Nginx: return 403 to atlassian-bot
if ($http_user_agent ~* "(atlassian\-bot)") {
return 403;
}Apache
# Apache .htaccess: return 403 to atlassian-bot
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_USER_AGENT} (atlassian\-bot) [NC]
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]Cloudflare WAF
# Cloudflare > Security > WAF > Custom rule, action: Block
(http.user_agent contains "atlassian-bot")How to verify real atlassian-bot traffic
Atlassian publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for atlassian-bot, so the user agent cannot be verified. Anyone can send the same string. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
How to find atlassian-bot in your server logs
Search the web server access log for the token. The command below counts atlassian-bot requests per URL on Nginx or Apache.
grep -i "atlassian-bot" access.log | awk '{print $7}' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -20For a full report per AI bot, upload the log to the AI Log File Analyzer, a free tool by Justin Hà.
atlassian-bot FAQ
atlassian-bot uses the robots.txt token "atlassian-bot". Atlassian does not publish a full user-agent string, so match the token inside the User-Agent header.
Yes. Atlassian states that atlassian-bot follows robots.txt rules written for the "atlassian-bot" token.
Blocking an AI search crawler has no effect on Google or Bing rankings. Blocking removes your pages from that AI search index, so its answers can no longer cite or link to your website.
Add two lines to the robots.txt file at the root of each domain and subdomain: "User-agent: atlassian-bot" followed by "Disallow: /". The token is case-insensitive. Changes can take up to 24 hours to be picked up.
Not reliably. Atlassian publishes no IP list or reverse DNS pattern for atlassian-bot, so anyone can send the same user agent. Rate-limit unusual volume instead of trusting the name.
Search your server access log for "atlassian-bot", for example with: grep -i "atlassian-bot" access.log. The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits per AI bot from an uploaded log file.
Sources: Public bot registry. Last reviewed by Justin Hà.
See which of these bots actually reach your website
The AI Log File Analyzer by Justin Hà counts visits from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers in your server log, for free. The GEO Technical Package sets up robots.txt, llms.txt and crawler access for AI search.
