diff --git a/docs/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring/automatic-detection.mdx b/docs/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring/automatic-detection.mdx index 1fbed62615940..132799aad27d8 100644 --- a/docs/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring/automatic-detection.mdx +++ b/docs/product/alerts/uptime-monitoring/automatic-detection.mdx @@ -21,16 +21,21 @@ Sentry will execute uptime checks against the hostname root path of the most fre ## Disabling Automatic Detection -Deleting an alert will disable automatic detection for the entire project linked to the host. This feature can also be turned off globally for the entire organization from the [organization settings](https://sentry.io/orgredirect/organizations/:orgslug/settings/organization) page. -Alternatively, the hostname's `robots.txt` can be updated to disallow Sentry: +If you prefer not to use automatically detected uptime alerts, you have two options to disable them: + +1. **Deleting Uptime Alerts:** You can directly delete existing automatically detected uptime alerts from your [Alerts page](https://sentry.io/orgredirect/organizations/:orgslug/alerts/rules). Once deleted, these alerts will not be re-created automatically in the future. +2. **Blocking Sentry via `robots.txt`:** Another method to prevent automatic detection is by updating your hostname's robots.txt file to block Sentry’s uptime monitoring bot. To do this, add the following lines to your robots.txt file: ```txt{tabTitle: Example}{filename: robots.txt} User-agent: SentryUptimeBot Disallow: * ``` + +**Note:** The `robots.txt` file will only prevent Sentry from detecting URLs that it encounters in the future. Existing URLs that have already been detected will continue to have uptime alerts unless they are manually deleted. + + ## Current Limitations -In the current version, automatically-detected uptime alerts can only be deleted, not edited. Support for editing -will be added in the future. Additionally, each organization is limited to one automatically-detected host. +At present, automatically detected uptime alerts have limited editability. You cannot update the URLs associated with these alerts. Only the alert name and owner can be modified. The ability to edit URLs and other alert settings is planned for a future release. Additionally, each organization is limited to one automatically detected hostname.