#
# robots.txt
#
# This file is to prevent the crawling and indexing of certain parts
# of your site by web crawlers and spiders run by sites like Yahoo!
# and Google. By telling these "robots" where not to go on your site,
# you save bandwidth and server resources.
#
# This file will be ignored unless it is at the root of your host:
# Used:    http://example.com/robots.txt
# Ignored: http://example.com/site/robots.txt
#
# For more information about the robots.txt standard, see:
# http://www.robotstxt.org/robotstxt.html

User-agent: *
# CSS, JS, Images
Allow: /core/*.css$
Allow: /core/*.css?
Allow: /core/*.js$
Allow: /core/*.js?
Allow: /core/*.gif
Allow: /core/*.jpg
Allow: /core/*.jpeg
Allow: /core/*.png
Allow: /core/*.svg
Allow: /profiles/*.css$
Allow: /profiles/*.css?
Allow: /profiles/*.js$
Allow: /profiles/*.js?
Allow: /profiles/*.gif
Allow: /profiles/*.jpg
Allow: /profiles/*.jpeg
Allow: /profiles/*.png
Allow: /profiles/*.svg
# Directories
Disallow: /core/
Disallow: /profiles/
# Files
Disallow: /README.md
Disallow: /composer/Metapackage/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/ProjectMessage/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/Scaffold/README.md
Disallow: /composer/Plugin/VendorHardening/README.txt
Disallow: /composer/Template/README.txt
Disallow: /modules/README.txt
Disallow: /sites/README.txt
Disallow: /themes/README.txt
Disallow: /web.config
# Paths (clean URLs)
Disallow: /admin/
Disallow: /comment/reply/
Disallow: /filter/tips
Disallow: /node/add/
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /user/register
Disallow: /user/password
Disallow: /user/login
Disallow: /user/logout
Disallow: /media/oembed
Disallow: /*/media/oembed
# Paths (no clean URLs)
Disallow: /index.php/admin/
Disallow: /index.php/comment/reply/
Disallow: /index.php/filter/tips
Disallow: /index.php/node/add/
Disallow: /index.php/search/
Disallow: /index.php/user/password
Disallow: /index.php/user/register
Disallow: /index.php/user/login
Disallow: /index.php/user/logout
Disallow: /index.php/media/oembed
Disallow: /index.php/*/media/oembed

Allow: /threatreport/*.css$
Allow: /threatreport/*.css?
Allow: /threatreport/*.js$
Allow: /threatreport/*.js?
Allow: /threatreport/*.gif
Allow: /threatreport/*.jpg
Allow: /threatreport/*.jpeg
Allow: /threatreport/*.png
Allow: /threatreport/*.svg

Allow: /themes/custom/netscout/**/*.js?
Allow: /themes/custom/netscout/**/*.css?

Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.pdf
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.xls
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.xlsx
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.pptx
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.ppt
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.doc
Disallow: /sites/default/files/**/*.docx
Disallow: /system/files/*
Disallow: /partners/*
Disallow: /offices/*
Disallow: /tags/*
Disallow: /speaking-event/*
Disallow: /media/*
Disallow: *?
Disallow: */page*.html
Disallow: /node
Disallow: /node/*
Disallow: /it
Disallow: /ko
Disallow: /es/node
Disallow: /fr/node
Disallow: /pt/node
Disallow: /de/node
Disallow: /ru/node
Disallow: /ja/node
Disallow: /zh-hans/node
Disallow: /zh-cn/node
Disallow: /it/node
Disallow: /ko/node
Disallow: /es/node/*
Disallow: /fr/node/*
Disallow: /pt/node/*
Disallow: /de/node/*
Disallow: /ru/node/*
Disallow: /ja/node/*
Disallow: /zh-hans/node/*
Disallow: /zh-cn/node/*
Disallow: /it/node/*
Disallow: /ko/node/*
Disallow: /es/media/*
Disallow: /fr/media/*
Disallow: /pt/media/*
Disallow: /de/media/*
Disallow: /ru/media/*
Disallow: /ja/media/*
Disallow: /zh-hans/media/*
Disallow: /zh-cn/media/*
Disallow: /it/media/*
Disallow: /ko/media/*
Disallow: /pdf/*
Disallow: /jsonapi/*
Disallow: */basic-html/*
Disallow: /shared/*
Disallow: /*?

# allow AI bots

User-agent: ChatGPT-User
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
User-agent: Claude-User
User-agent: Claude-Web
User-agent: ClaudeBot
User-agent: DeepSeekBot
User-agent: Google-Extended
User-agent: GPTBot
User-agent: meta-externalagent
User-agent: Meta-ExternalAgent
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
User-agent: PerplexityBot
Allow: /solutions
Allow: /solutions/*
Allow: /products
Allow: /product/*
Allow: /what-is*
Allow: /resources
Allow: /resources/*
Allow: /company
Allow: /company/*
Allow: /blog
Allow: /blog/*
Allow: /technology-partners
Allow: /technology-partners/*
Allow: /threatreport
Allow: /threatreport/*
Allow: /industries
Allow: /industries/*

Sitemap: https://www.netscout.com/default/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://www.netscout.com/threatreport/page-sitemap.xml