newrelic.com: what it tells AI crawlers

On 28 October 2026, newrelic.com's robots.txt allowed all of GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, Claude-SearchBot, Google-Extended, PerplexityBot and CCBot; it also published llms.txt.

Last verified 2026-10-29 03:59 UTC (daily run of 2026-10-28). Proof for that day.

Panel
top 1k (Tranco)
robots.txt
ok (HTTP 200) · https://newrelic.com/robots.txt
unchanged since 2026-10-26 · sha256 f6ee1db86519f301… · view as recorded
The * group
allows applies to every agent without its own group

Per AI bot, 2026-10-28

User agentVerdictHow
GPTBotallowsthrough the * group
OAI-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
ChatGPT-Userallowsthrough the * group
ClaudeBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-SearchBotallowsthrough the * group
Claude-Userallowsthrough the * group
PerplexityBotallowsthrough the * group
Perplexity-Userallowsthrough the * group
Googlebotallowsthrough the * group
Google-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
Applebot-Extendedallowsthrough the * group
CCBotallowsthrough the * group
Bytespiderallowsthrough the * group
Meta-ExternalAgentallowsthrough the * group
Amazonbotallowsthrough the * group

Other signals

Publishes /llms.txtyes
Publishes /ai.txtno
Publishes /.well-known/tdmrep.jsonnot observed
Reserves TDM rights (TDMRep file, header or meta)not observed
Declares Content Signals (robots.txt or header)no
Says ai-train=no in a Content Signalno
Points to an RSL licence (robots.txt License line or Link header)no
Answers with an x402 payment offer (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Answers HTTP 402 Payment Required (lower bound: only the homepage is probed)no
Sends noai / noimageai directivesno
Refused our fetcher (403 / challenge)no

llms.txt: "New Relic", 43,812 bytes, 201 links.

robots.txt as recorded sha256 48b6cd7dff99a651…

User-agent: * 
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout

Disallow: /signup/ 
Disallow: /lp/* 
Disallow: /homepage-b
Disallow: /lp/zoom-thank-you


User-agent: Swiftbot 
Disallow: /signup/ 

User-agent: phantomjs 
Disallow: / 

User-agent: phantomJS 
Disallow: / 

User-agent: DatadogSynthetics
Disallow: /

# Language Specific Sitemaps
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/de/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/es/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/fr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/kr/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/jp/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/pt/sitemap.xml

# IO Sitemap
Sitemap: https://newrelic.com/instant-observability/sitemap-0.xml

robots.txt versions

FromThroughStateVersion
2026-10-262026-10-28ok 200f6ee1db86519

Timeline of changes

DateWhat changed
No changes since the first observation (2026-10-26).

Reconstructed history (Common Crawl)

From Common Crawl's robots.txt captures: what CCBot was served, one crawl per quarter. A separate series from the daily observations above; a 403 here means Common Crawl was refused, not this ledger.

CrawlHostStateGPTBotOAI-SearchBotChatGPT-UserClaudeBotClaude-SearchBotClaude-UserPerplexityBot
2026-09-21 CC-MAIN-2026-39newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2025-09-15 CC-MAIN-2025-38newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2024-09-16 CC-MAIN-2024-38newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2023-10-02 CC-MAIN-2023-40newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2022-10-03 CC-MAIN-2022-40newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2021-09-27 CC-MAIN-2021-39newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2020-09-28 CC-MAIN-2020-40newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2019-09-23 CC-MAIN-2019-39newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-09-24 CC-MAIN-2018-39newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-07-23 CC-MAIN-2018-30newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-04-23 CC-MAIN-2018-17newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2018-01-29 CC-MAIN-2018-05newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-10-23 CC-MAIN-2017-43newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-09-25 CC-MAIN-2017-39newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-07-24 CC-MAIN-2017-30newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-04-24 CC-MAIN-2017-17newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2017-01-23 CC-MAIN-2017-04newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-10-03 CC-MAIN-2016-40newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows
2016-09-05 CC-MAIN-2016-36newrelic.comok viewallowsallowsunknownallowsallowsunknownallows

Evidence

Every daily observation of newrelic.com is a leaf in that day's Merkle tree. Proof of the robots.txt line for 2026-10-28: audit path (JSON), day root and OpenTimestamps proof (complete (bitcoin block 973640)).

API: https://infrarabbit.com/crawlers/api/v1/policy/newrelic.com