diff --git a/src/main/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilter.groovy b/src/main/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilter.groovy
index 715ac4e34..add0e3c39 100644
--- a/src/main/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilter.groovy
+++ b/src/main/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilter.groovy
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ class DenyCrawlerFilter implements HttpServerFilter {
     Publisher<MutableHttpResponse<?>> doFilter(HttpRequest<?> request, ServerFilterChain chain) {
         final userAgent = request.getHeaders().get("User-Agent")?.toLowerCase()
         // Check if the request path matches any of the ignored paths
-        if (isCrawler(userAgent)) {
+        if (isCrawler(userAgent) && request.path!='/robots.txt') {
             // Return immediately without processing the request
             log.warn("Request denied [${request.methodName}] ${request.uri}\n- Headers:${RegHelper.dumpHeaders(request)}")
             return Flux.just(HttpResponse.status(HttpStatus.METHOD_NOT_ALLOWED))
diff --git a/src/test/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilterTest.groovy b/src/test/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilterTest.groovy
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c68b51454
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/groovy/io/seqera/wave/filter/DenyCrawlerFilterTest.groovy
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+/*
+ *  Wave, containers provisioning service
+ *  Copyright (c) 2023-2024, Seqera Labs
+ *
+ *  This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ *  (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ *  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ *  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ *  GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ *  You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
+ *  along with this program.  If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+package io.seqera.wave.filter
+
+import spock.lang.Specification
+
+import io.micronaut.http.HttpRequest
+import io.micronaut.http.client.HttpClient
+import io.micronaut.http.client.annotation.Client
+import io.micronaut.http.client.exceptions.HttpClientResponseException
+import io.micronaut.test.extensions.spock.annotation.MicronautTest
+import jakarta.inject.Inject
+
+/**
+ *
+ * @author Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditommaso@gmail.com>
+ */
+@MicronautTest
+class DenyCrawlerFilterTest extends Specification {
+
+    @Inject
+    @Client("/")
+    HttpClient client
+
+    def 'should allow robots.txt' () {
+        when:
+        def request = HttpRequest.GET("/robots.txt").header("User-Agent", "Googlebot")
+        def resp = client.toBlocking().exchange(request, String)
+        then:
+        resp.status.code == 200
+    }
+
+    def 'should disallow anything else' () {
+        when:
+        def request = HttpRequest.GET("/service-info").header("User-Agent", "Googlebot")
+        client.toBlocking().exchange(request, String)
+        then:
+        HttpClientResponseException e = thrown(HttpClientResponseException)
+        e.status.code == 405
+    }
+
+}