Cut reporting time by 2 hours/week and give your team a clear dashboard to review bot trends every Monday.
~2 hrs
Saved / wk
Medium
Setup
No AI
AI
Pull your Known Agents bot traffic data into Metabase so you can see charts and trends over time in one place. You get a clear picture of which AI crawlers hit your site most, when they come, and how often. This helps you make smarter decisions about blocking or monetizing bot traffic.
~2 hrs
Saved / Week
Some setup required
Setup Complexity
No AI involved
AI Status
Step 1: Export Known Agents bot traffic data to a database (e.g., PostgreSQL on DigitalOcean) using the Known Agents API
Step 2: Connect Metabase to your database using the Metabase database connection settings
Step 3: Create a Metabase question (query) that pulls daily bot visit counts grouped by crawler name
Step 4: Build a Metabase dashboard with charts for top bots, traffic over time, and blocked vs. allowed crawlers
Step 5: Set Metabase to email the dashboard to your team every Monday morning
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Known Agents helps you see and control the AI bots and crawlers visiting your website. You get real-time analytics on bot traffic, automatic robots.txt management, and tools to block scrapers that steal your content. It's built for publishers, SaaS companies, and ecommerce businesses that want to understand — and profit from — the hidden wave of AI agents hitting their sites.