Catch domain and record drift
A website can look healthy in the dashboard until DNS changes, TTL mistakes, or missing answers stop real traffic from reaching it.
Premium feature • DNS monitor
DNS monitoring that catches record and resolver problems early
Dashmon lets Premium workspaces add a DNS monitor that resolves the record type from the target host, checks whether lookups succeed, and can require specific answers. That helps ops teams detect domain, resolver, and record drift problems before they become visible to users.
The current product supports DNS monitor settings for A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records. If a lookup fails or the expected answers are missing, Dashmon marks the monitor down and can push the event into your broader incident workflow.
Premium-only DNS monitorExpected answersResolver failure visibilityPairs with alert routingUseful for websites and APIs
Why teams use DNS monitoring
What this capability adds in practice
Understand the practical role of this capability, how it fits the wider monitoring loop, and what your team can do next when the signal changes.
Spot resolver-side failures fast
Dashmon surfaces lookup failures directly so the issue is easier to separate from app or server problems.
Keep one monitoring workflow
DNS monitoring sits beside HTTP, TCP, ping, heartbeat, incidents, reports, and routing instead of becoming another separate tool.
How Dashmon’s DNS monitoring fits real ops work
How this works inside Dashmon
These capabilities are available through Dashmon’s dashboard and app flows. The sections below show how the feature fits into day-to-day monitoring, investigation, response, and communication.
Check the record you actually care about
Select the record type that matters to the service, then add expected answers when you need a stricter assertion than “resolves at all”.
Escalate from the same project
Use Premium alert routing, quiet hours, webhooks, email, and SMS from the same workspace when a DNS check turns unhealthy.
Tie DNS into customer communication
If a domain issue becomes a customer-facing outage, Dashmon can also support incidents, reports, and status page workflows.
Commercial relevance
Visible content buyers expect
What Dashmon adds beyond a single DNS check
What makes this page worth ranking for “DNS monitoring”
- Clear explanation of what the monitor does
- Supported record types grounded in the product
- Use cases for websites, APIs, and internet-facing services
- Internal links to related Premium workflows
- Project-based monitoring and alerting
- Incidents, status pages, and reports
- DNS plus heartbeat, synthetic, HTTP, TCP, and ping checks
- Upgrade path for teams that need multi-region and escalations
Frequently asked questions
Questions people ask before they buy
What DNS records can Dashmon monitor?
Dashmon’s DNS monitor supports A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS record types. You can also require specific answers so a lookup only passes when the response matches what you expect.
Is DNS monitoring a Premium feature?
Yes. The current product surfaces DNS monitors as a Premium-only monitor type, while standard uptime checks remain available in the core workflow.
Who should buy DNS monitoring?
It is useful for teams running websites, APIs, customer portals, branch services, or any external endpoint where DNS problems can create outages even when the underlying server is still up.
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Continue into the connected Dashmon workflows that help you understand the signal and respond without switching between disconnected tools.
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Start with the workflow that matches your environment
Use the free plan for the core monitoring path, then upgrade when you need faster checks, advanced monitors, alert routing, incidents, reports, status pages, maintenance windows, API tokens, and deeper operational control.