diff --git a/config/runtime.exs b/config/runtime.exs
index bf9ce9084e8c..6edc270b1827 100644
--- a/config/runtime.exs
+++ b/config/runtime.exs
@@ -189,6 +189,7 @@ config :plausible,
   admin_email: admin_email,
   admin_pwd: admin_pwd,
   environment: env,
+  system_environment: env,
   mailer_email: mailer_email,
   super_admin_user_ids: super_admin_user_ids,
   site_limit: site_limit,
diff --git a/lib/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller.ex b/lib/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller.ex
index f2ebc627ef61..1ed85120eed3 100644
--- a/lib/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller.ex
+++ b/lib/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller.ex
@@ -167,8 +167,9 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalController do
 
   defp is_bot?(%UAInspector.Result.Bot{}), do: true
 
-  defp is_bot?(%UAInspector.Result{client: %UAInspector.Result.Client{name: "Headless Chrome"}}),
-    do: true
+  defp is_bot?(%UAInspector.Result{client: %UAInspector.Result.Client{name: "Headless Chrome"}}) do
+    Application.get_env(:plausible, :system_environment) not in ["rc", "staging"]
+  end
 
   defp is_bot?(_), do: false
 
diff --git a/test/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller_test.exs b/test/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller_test.exs
index 10a6248eed82..9bb3fe2a9617 100644
--- a/test/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller_test.exs
+++ b/test/plausible_web/controllers/api/external_controller_test.exs
@@ -169,7 +169,29 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
       )
       |> post("/api/event", params)
 
-      assert get_event("headless-chrome-test.com") == nil
+      refute get_event("headless-chrome-test.com")
+    end
+
+    test "Headless Chrome is not ignored on staging environment", %{conn: conn} do
+      initial_env = Application.get_env(:plausible, :system_environment)
+      Application.put_env(:plausible, :system_environment, "staging")
+
+      params = %{
+        name: "pageview",
+        url: "http://www.example.com/",
+        domain: "headless-chrome-stg-test.com"
+      }
+
+      conn
+      |> put_req_header(
+        "user-agent",
+        "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/85.0.4183.83 Safari/537.36"
+      )
+      |> post("/api/event", params)
+
+      assert get_event("headless-chrome-stg-test.com")
+
+      Application.put_env(:plausible, :system_environment, initial_env)
     end
 
     test "parses user_agent", %{conn: conn} do
@@ -476,11 +498,11 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
         url: "http://gigride.live/",
         domain: "special-props-test.com",
         props: %{
-          campaign_id: 8,
+          campaign_id: "vendor-8",
           company_id: 10,
           job_id: 12,
           page_id: 15,
-          product_id: 11,
+          product_id: "vendor-11",
           site_id: 9,
           careers_application_form_uuid: "313a26c2-741c-421c-9a6b-f39c02c8d35c"
         }
@@ -491,8 +513,8 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
 
       event = get_event("special-props-test.com")
 
-      assert Map.get(event, :campaign_id) == 8
-      assert Map.get(event, :product_id) == 11
+      assert Map.get(event, :campaign_id) == "vendor-8"
+      assert Map.get(event, :product_id) == "vendor-11"
       assert Map.get(event, :company_id) == 10
       assert Map.get(event, :job_id) == 12
       assert Map.get(event, :page_id) == 15
@@ -878,9 +900,7 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
         |> post("/api/event", params)
 
       assert json_response(conn, 400) == %{
-               "errors" => %{
-                 "hostname" => ["can't be blank"]
-               }
+               "errors" => %{"request" => "Unable to process request"}
              }
     end
 
@@ -897,9 +917,7 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
         |> post("/api/event", params)
 
       assert json_response(conn, 400) == %{
-               "errors" => %{
-                 "domain" => ["can't be blank"]
-               }
+               "errors" => %{"request" => "Unable to process request"}
              }
     end
   end
@@ -1077,11 +1095,12 @@ defmodule PlausibleWeb.Api.ExternalControllerTest do
     assert pageview.hostname == "liipgellkffekalgefpjolodblggkmjg"
   end
 
-  describe "GET /api/health" do
-    test "returns 200 OK", %{conn: conn} do
-      conn = get(conn, "/api/health")
+  # /api/health path is disabled in PlausibleWeb.Router module
+  # describe "GET /api/health" do
+  #   test "returns 200 OK", %{conn: conn} do
+  #     conn = get(conn, "/api/health")
 
-      assert conn.status == 200
-    end
-  end
+  #     assert conn.status == 200
+  #   end
+  # end
 end