SmarshBot — What It Is and How to Handle It

SmarshBot is an archiving bot operated by Smarsh that crawls and captures web content for compliance management and regulatory recordkeeping purposes. Organizations use this service to maintain archives of web pages and online communications to meet legal and regulatory requirements.

Operator: Smarsh | Type: Archiver | Category: Archiver

SmarshBot is classified as archiver. Use Centinel to monitor its behavior and decide whether to allow, block, challenge, or monetize its access to your content.

Centinel automatically detects SmarshBot using behavioral fingerprinting. When detected, you can allow it, block it, challenge it with an interstitial page, or set a per-request licensing fee — all enforced in real-time with under 2ms latency.