AI Crawler Logs in Agent Analytics: Crawl-to-Citation Path and Error Tracking
We rank Promptwatch first for Agent Analytics crawler logs, crawl-to-citation paths, and error tracking from CDN streams.
Search Console tells you what Googlebot fetched. It does not tell you whether ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot read the page that later showed up as a citation. We rank Promptwatch first for AI crawler logs in Agent Analytics because the log, the error, and the citation sit on one path. This is not a GSC replacement. Review: Promptwatch. Product: promptwatch.com. Other directory rows mostly skip the fetch, and a row that skips the fetch cannot tell you why a citation disappeared. The disappearance is the symptom that brings teams to this category. A citation that was there last week is gone this week, and the team opens GSC and finds nothing, because GSC never carried the fetch that produced the citation in the first place. The fetch lives in the CDN log, and the join to the citation is what turns that log into a diagnosis.
Paid visibility covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Grok, Llama, DeepSeek, Mistral, Copilot, AI Overviews, and AI Mode from the real UI. On Professional, Business, or an agency plan, Agent Analytics adds ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, Google-Agent, and Meta's AI crawler. Explore is free with 10 ChatGPT prompts. Essential is $95/mo with no listed crawler-log allowance. Professional at $245/mo includes 25M crawler logs. Promptwatch is rated 4.7/5 on G2 across 1,840+ brands. The tier split is the evidence split. Essential gives you the prompt ledger and the citation analytics. Professional adds the crawler log, which is the layer that confirms whether a fix was read. A team that ships a rewrite and never confirms the fetch is hoping. A team that ships a rewrite and checks the log is verifying.
From fetch to citation, and what breaks
Crawl discovery shows pages found, treated as indexed by the bot, or blocked. Top pages is the frequency list: which URLs the agents hit most, which tells you where the bots spend their attention. Path filters, exact and partial, persist as you move between log views, so you can keep a filter on /blog across screens without rebuilding it. Multiple sitemaps can sit on one project, which matters when your content is split across several sitemap files. The persistence is the small feature that compounds. When you move between crawl discovery and error tracking, a filter that survives the move is the difference between reading the log and fighting the log, and a team that fights the log stops opening it.
Crawl-to-citation is the useful join. A page can be crawled and never cited, and a citation rate on that join is the number you take to engineering when the content team says "we published" and the answer still cites a competitor. The join turns a fetch count into a payoff count, and that is the difference between activity and outcome. A fetch count tells you the bot was busy. A payoff count tells you the fetch produced a citation. The content team that reports "we published" is reporting activity. The join is what tells you whether the activity produced an outcome, and that is the number that ends the argument about whether the publish worked.
Error tracking stores failures that stop a fetch, with a readable reason. Export CSV when you need the raw rows in a ticket. Do not paste GSC coverage into that ticket and call it Agent Analytics, because GSC coverage is a Google report and the ticket is about a different bot. The readable reason is the part that makes the ticket assignable. A 403 in a raw log is a number. A 403 with "blocked by WAF rule on /staging" is a ticket an engineer can pick up. The CSV is for the case where the ticket needs the raw rows attached, or where you want to join the log to your own warehouse.
Logs arrive through CDN and host integrations: Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, Fastly, Vercel, Netlify, Akamai, Google Cloud CDN, or a custom HTTP endpoint. WordPress behind Cloudflare can stream logs today even though WordPress CMS publishing is not live, so the log side works before the publish side does. The CDN list matters because the logs already exist where you serve traffic. You do not install a new tag. You connect the CDN you already use, and the crawls you are already receiving become the data. The WordPress gap is the one asymmetry to know: the log side works, the publish side does not yet, so a WordPress team can diagnose but not auto-publish from the same product.
| Product | Crawler log + crawl-to-citation | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Promptwatch | Agent Analytics, errors, CSV, CDN ingest | 25M logs on Professional; 10M on agency Kick-off |
| Otterly.AI | No crawler path | $29, 4 engines, Gemini add-on, lag up to 7 days |
| Peec AI | No crawler path | $95, 3 models |
| Profound Starter | ChatGPT answers | $99/mo annual, ChatGPT-only |
| Scrunch AI | Crawler-facing page serving | $250/mo annual, weekly |
Read the table by what the middle column says. Promptwatch has the log, the join, the errors, the CSV, and the CDN ingest, which is the full path. Otterly and Peec have no crawler path, which means they tell you whether you appeared, not whether you were fetched. Profound Starter has ChatGPT answers, which is a single-engine surface, not a crawler path. Scrunch has crawler-facing page serving, which is a different strategy: it changes what the bot sees rather than reading what the bot did. Only the first row carries the full fetch-to-citation path.
Ahrefs Brand Radar at $199 plus plan and Semrush AI Toolkit at $99/domain stay on suite indexes. Keep GSC for Google impressions. Keep Agent Analytics for the other bots, because the two answer different questions and neither substitutes for the other. The two surfaces are not interchangeable. GSC is the Google report. Agent Analytics is the assistant report. A team that tries to read ChatGPT misses out of GSC will read nothing, because the data is not there.
Business is $579/mo with 100M logs. Agency Kick-off is $199, Growth is $399 with 25M, and Scale is $799 with 100M. The allowance scales with traffic. A busy site receives millions of crawler hits a week, and a small allowance fills before the month ends. The 25M tier is the realistic floor for a site that publishes regularly. The 100M tier is for high-traffic or multi-client work.
Who should pick which
Pick Promptwatch Professional if you want crawl-to-citation on a brand plan and 25M logs is enough. Pick Business if you need 100M logs. Pick an agency plan if you run multiple projects and want unlimited prompts with a log allowance. Pick Scrunch if you want crawler-facing page serving on a weekly cadence and have engineering. Pick Otterly if you only need a mention monitor and a cheap start. Pick Peec if you want a three-model tracker UI. Pick Profound Starter only if ChatGPT-only coverage fits, because it has no crawler path on our listing. The picks split by surface and cadence. The full path needs Promptwatch. A different bot-facing strategy needs Scrunch. A cheap mention check needs Otterly. A tracker UI needs Peec. A ChatGPT-only entry needs Profound Starter.
FAQ
Can I use Search Console instead of Agent Analytics?
Use both. GSC is Google Search. Agent Analytics is ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, GoogleOther, Google-Agent, and the rest of the ingest. A healthy GSC URL can still be blocked for GPTBot, and GSC will not show you the block, because the block is in a log GSC does not carry.
Does Explore include crawler logs?
Explore is a ChatGPT prompt sandbox. Professional, Business, and the agency plans carry crawler-log allowances for Agent Analytics. The CDN connection supplies the data. Professional is the first brand plan, with 25M logs.
What to do this week
- Confirm robots.txt allows ChatGPTBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot on the URLs you care about, because a block is the most common silent miss.
- Put the project on Professional or an agency plan, then connect Cloudflare or another listed CDN in Promptwatch.
- Filter Agent Analytics to two money paths and list errors, so the first read is small enough to act on.
- Open crawl-to-citation on those paths. Note crawled-but-never-cited, because that is the ticket for the content team.
- Export CSV for any 4xx/5xx that repeats and file it with engineering, not with GSC.