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  1. Welcome to Uptime 👋
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started with monitoring
    2. Working with monitors
    3. Customizing monitors
    4. Monitor types
      1. Uptime monitor
      2. Keyword monitor
      3. Ping monitor
      4. Cron and heartbeat monitor
      5. API monitor
      6. DNS monitor
      7. Domain expiration monitor
      8. SSL certificate monitor
      9. TCP/UDP port monitor
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started with on-call
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced on-call setup
  5. Incidents
    1. Working with incidents
    2. Create incidents manually
    3. Post mortems
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started with status pages
    2. Working with status pages
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
  9. API
    1. Get started with API
  10. Monitors API
    1. Monitors
    2. Monitor groups
    3. Heartbeats
    4. Heartbeat groups
  11. On-call & Incidents API
    1. On-call calendar
    2. Escalation policies
    3. Incidents
  12. Integrations API
    1. Email integrations
    2. Incoming webhooks
  13. Status pages API
    1. Status pages
    2. Status page sections
    3. Status page resources
    4. Status page reports
    5. Status page report updates
  14. Other API
    1. Metadata

DNS monitor

Creating a DNS monitor:

  • Go to Monitors → Create monitor.
  • Change the Alert us when the host above selection to "DNS server doesn't respond".
  • Enter a DNS server IP in the DNS server to monitor field.
  • Enter a domain name in the Domain to query the DNS server with field.
  • Click Create monitor.

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