Many of our customers run Heap on public-facing, content-rich sites, and robots can generate unwanted sessions.
Heap blocks a list of 100+ common bot User-Agents by default. A list of these bots is available to customers by request.
Additional Bot Filtering
If you suspect bot sessions have been captured by Heap, do the following.
- Group by the suspicious sessions using User-Agent and check if the User-Agent string contains anything that looks like a bot.
- Navigate to Account > Manage > Session Replay > General Settings and input the additional User-Agent substrings in the box under Filter Out Sessions From Bots. If the string you specify is contained at all in the User-Agent reported by the robot when it visits, we won’t capture the data.