About The Nerdy Cloud Guy User Agent

The Nerdy Cloud Guy user agent is part of our FlowRunner automation system. It performs lightweight status checks to help customers verify uptime, detect configuration issues, and confirm that their websites are responding as expected. These checks are designed to be safe, minimal, and respectful of your infrastructure.

Our system identifies itself using the following user agent string:

The Nerdy Cloud Guy/1.0 (+some domain; ref=some reference)

This user agent is used exclusively for automated status actions initiated by FlowRunner. It is not a crawler, indexer, marketing bot, or analytics tracker. It exists purely to run small, controlled checks on behalf of customers who have explicitly configured these tests.

How It Works

To minimise impact on websites and servers, the user agent behaves in a deliberately gentle and predictable way:

• Only one request is made per configured test interval
• HEAD requests are preferred for basic availability checks
• GET requests occur only when the customer’s test requires content inspection
• No resource-intensive scanning, crawling, or recursive fetching takes place
• No scripts, tracking, or browser-style rendering is performed

These checks allow site owners to detect downtime, SSL issues, redirect loops, authentication failures, or unexpected behaviour before real users are affected.

Why You May See Requests From This User Agent

A customer using FlowRunner may have set up:

• Basic uptime monitoring
• Header or status-code verification
• API endpoint availability checks
• Lightweight page validation tests
• Scheduled configuration checks for internal services

All tests are opt-in by the site owner. If you are seeing this user agent, someone responsible for the site has configured a FlowRunner action that needs to confirm the status of one or more URLs.

Questions or Concerns?

We fully respect requests to stop monitoring any site or endpoint. If you believe checks are hitting your site unintentionally or you would like them disabled, contact us, and we will address it promptly.

Contact:
support@thenerdycloudguy.com

Include the affected URL, timestamps, and any relevant log entries so we can identify the associated customer test quickly.