Does elastic.co block AI crawlers?
Open to AI crawlers
elastic.co doesn't block any of the major AI crawlers we track in its robots.txt.
Checked from elastic.co/robots.txt. Robots rules change; the live file is the source of truth.
- AI crawlers blocked
- 0 of 12
- AI bots named in robots.txt
- 0
- llms.txt
- Not found
- Popularity
- Tranco top 5,000 (#2,273)
Can AI assistants cite elastic.co?
- ChatGPT search: its search crawlers may read the site
- Claude: its search crawlers may read the site
- Perplexity: its search crawlers may read the site
elastic.co doesn't opt out of AI model training through robots.txt. Training crawlers and answer crawlers are separate: blocking training doesn't by itself remove a site from AI answers.
AI crawler access, bot by bot
| Crawler | Used for | Status on elastic.co |
|---|---|---|
| GPTBotOpenAI | AI training | Allowed |
| OAI-SearchBotOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ChatGPT-UserOpenAI | AI answers | Allowed |
| ClaudeBotAnthropic | AI training | Allowed |
| Claude-SearchBotAnthropic | AI answers | Allowed |
| Claude-UserAnthropic | AI answers | Allowed |
| PerplexityBotPerplexity | AI answers | Allowed |
| Google-ExtendedGoogle | AI training | Allowed |
| Applebot-ExtendedApple | AI training | Allowed |
| CCBotCommon Crawl | AI training | Allowed |
| BytespiderByteDance | AI training | Allowed |
| Meta-ExternalAgentMeta | AI training | Allowed |
How elastic.co compares
- 19% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block GPTBot; elastic.co does not.
- 18% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block ClaudeBot; elastic.co does not.
- 14% of the 1,278 popular sites we checked block PerplexityBot; elastic.co does not.
- Among 185 sites of similar popularity, 21% block at least one AI crawler.
The robots.txt rules that apply to AI crawlers
User-agent: * Allow: /guide/en/*/current* Allow: /guide/en/*/master* Allow: /guide/$ Allow: /guide$ Allow: /guide/?* Allow: /guide/cn/elasticsearch$ Allow: /guide/cn/elasticsearch/$ Allow: /guide/cn/elasticsearch/php/$ Allow: /guide/cn/elasticsearch/php$ Allow: /guide/cn/kibana$ Allow: /guide/en/apm$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/dotnet$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/dotnet/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/go$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/go/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/java$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/java/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/js-base/1.x/api.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/js-base/4.x/configuration.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/js-base/4.x/distributed-tracing-guide.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/js-base/4.x/intro.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/nodejs$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/php$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/python/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/python/index.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/rum-js$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/rum-js/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/rum-js/2.x$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/agent/swift/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/get-started$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/get-started/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/get-started/6.0/install-and-run.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/get-started/index.html$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/guide/$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/guide/8.10$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/server$ Allow: /guide/en/apm/server/$ Allow: /guide/en/app-search$
Excerpt: only groups for all user-agents (*) or named AI crawlers, up to 40 rules per group.
Sites with a similar AI policy
Does elastic.co block GPTBot?
No. As of Oct 2, 2026, elastic.co's robots.txt doesn't block GPTBot.
Can ChatGPT search show results from elastic.co?
Its robots.txt doesn't block OAI-SearchBot or ChatGPT-User, so ChatGPT's search crawlers may read it. Whether pages are actually shown depends on ChatGPT.
Does elastic.co have an llms.txt file?
We didn't find a valid llms.txt at elastic.co/llms.txt when we checked.
Data: elastic.co's public robots.txt and llms.txt, fetched by AskableHQ. Popularity rank from the Tranco list (ID Y83YG). Methodology.