DNS monitoring
DNS monitoring for resolution failures and record changes.
DNS failures rarely look dramatic in a dashboard until customers cannot reach you. Upwhisper treats DNS as a first-class domain health signal, not a footnote under uptime.
Real dashboard signal
See both outage and configuration drift.
Upwhisper separates “DNS is not resolving” from “DNS records changed”, because those are different operational stories.
Resolution status
A record changes
Nameserver changes
MX changes
What it checks
- Whether the hostname resolves successfully.
- A record values, so unexpected address changes are visible.
- Nameserver changes, which can indicate a planned migration or a serious ownership/control issue.
- MX record changes, so mail-routing changes do not pass silently.
How alerts work
- DNS down and DNS recovered events are tracked as stateful incidents.
- A, nameserver, and MX changes are detected by comparing confirmed check results.
- Transient lookup gaps are handled carefully so unknown data is not treated as a confirmed change.
Questions buyers ask before trusting a monitor.
Which DNS records does upwhisper track for changes?
The alerting model tracks A records, nameservers, and MX records between confirmed checks.
Does a DNS outage also create an HTTP outage alert?
When DNS and HTTP fail together, Upwhisper avoids double-alerting and explains the combined state in one event.
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