DNS monitoring that catches every record change the moment it happens
Uptura watches every A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS record and alerts you the moment one changes or your domain stops resolving — so you catch hijacks and accidental edits before they take a site or your email offline, with a full timestamped history of every change.
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example.com
DNS records
- A@192.0.2.24
- AAAA@2606:4700:...:8a3f
- CNAMEwwwexample.com
- MX@mail.example.com (10)Changed
- TXT@v=spf1 include:...
Why it matters
A single bad DNS record can take everything down
DNS is the quiet layer under your entire online presence. When a record changes — by mistake or by attack — sites stop loading and email stops arriving, often with no warning. DNS monitoring is how you find out first.
Everything
sits behind DNS
Websites, email, and APIs all resolve through DNS. One wrong record can take the whole lot offline at once.
Silent
is how it usually breaks
A changed MX or A record rarely throws an error — traffic and email just quietly stop, or go somewhere they shouldn't.
Minutes
is all a hijack needs
An unauthorized nameserver change can redirect your domain fast. Early detection is the difference between a scare and an incident.
What we monitor
Everything a DNS monitoring tool should watch
Uptura confirms your domain resolves and watches every record for unexpected changes — with a full timestamped history and instant alerts across email and Slack.
Resolution monitoring
Uptura resolves your domain on a schedule and alerts you the moment it stops resolving — the earliest signal that DNS or the domain itself has broken.
Record change detection
Watch A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records for any edit. The moment a record changes — expected or not — you get the exact before-and-after.
DNS history & audit trail
Every record value timestamped into a full history, so you can see exactly what a record looked like last week — and what changed, when.
Email record monitoring
Keep an eye on MX, SPF, DKIM, and DMARC records so a silent DNS edit never quietly breaks your email deliverability.
Hijack & misconfig alerts
An unexpected record change can mean a hijack or a fat-finger edit. Uptura flags it instantly across email or Slack.
How it works
Set it once, then know about every change
DNS monitoring shouldn't mean running manual lookups. Point Uptura at your domains and it does the watching from there.
- 1
Add your domains
Point Uptura at the domains you manage — just the hostname. No zone files to upload, no agents to install.
- 2
We check on a schedule
Uptura resolves your domain around the clock and records the result into a timestamped history.
- 3
You get alerted when it changes or breaks
The moment a record is edited or your domain stops resolving, we notify your team with the exact before-and-after — across email or Slack.
One platform
DNS is just one signal Uptura watches
Healthy DNS is only half the story — the site and services behind it have to be healthy too. Uptura pairs DNS monitoring with uptime, SSL, SEO, performance, accessibility, and more, so every part of a website's health lives in one dashboard and one alert stream.
Uptime Monitoring
Around-the-clock scheduled checks catch outages the instant they happen — before your customers do.
SSL & Domain
Track SSL certificate, issuer, and domain expiry across every site, with alerts well before anything lapses.
API & Endpoint
Test REST endpoints for status codes, latency, and JSON validity — and watch business-critical endpoints separately.
SEO Monitoring
Catch metadata, canonical, robots.txt, and sitemap regressions that quietly tank rankings — the moment they ship.
Core Web Vitals
Track LCP, CLS, and TBT over time with PageSpeed Insights scans, and get alerted when performance regresses.
Synthetic & Forms
Run scripted checks on logins, checkouts, and contact forms so broken user journeys never go unnoticed.
Visual Regression
Capture daily screenshots and highlight visual differences between deployments before anyone else spots them.
Accessibility
Continuous WCAG and Axe scans with historical reports, so accessibility regressions get caught — not shipped.
Plus everything else that keeps a website healthy
- Domain & WHOIS monitoring
- robots.txt monitoring
- Sitemap monitoring
- Broken link scanner
- Lighthouse scans
- Screenshot diffing
- Deployment comparison
- Email & Slack alerts
- Daily digests & PDF reports
FAQ
DNS monitoring, answered
What is DNS monitoring?
DNS monitoring is the continuous checking of a domain's DNS records — A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS — for changes, misconfigurations, and resolution failures. Instead of only noticing a problem when a site or email stops working, a DNS monitoring tool watches your records on a schedule and alerts you the moment anything changes.
Why is DNS monitoring important?
DNS sits in front of everything — websites, email, and APIs. A single wrong or hijacked record can take a domain offline, redirect traffic to an attacker, or silently break email delivery, often with no obvious error. Monitoring DNS means you learn about a change in minutes and can fix it before it causes real damage.
What DNS records can Uptura monitor?
Uptura snapshots your domain's A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records on every check and alerts you the moment any of them change — as well as if the domain stops resolving. That includes the TXT records behind SPF, DKIM, and DMARC.
How do I track DNS changes and view DNS history?
Every time a record changes, Uptura records the exact before-and-after into a timestamped change log on the domain's DNS page, so you can see precisely what changed and when. A longer-retention audit trail is on the roadmap.
Can DNS monitoring detect hijacking or unauthorized changes?
Yes. Uptura watches your A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records for any edit and alerts you instantly across email or Slack — so an unexpected change, whether a hijack or a fat-finger edit, surfaces right away with the exact before-and-after.
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