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  1. Welcome to Uptime 👋
  2. Frequently Asked Questions
  3. Monitoring
    1. Get started
    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. Playwright monitor
      6. API monitor
      7. DNS monitor
      8. Domain expiration monitor
      9. SSL certificate monitor
      10. TCP/UDP port monitor
  4. On-call scheduling and alerting
    1. Get started
    2. Sending alerts to Slack ↗
    3. Connecting external calendars
    4. Advanced guide
  5. Incidents
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  6. Status pages
    1. Get started
    2. Advanced guide
  7. Integrations
    1. Integrating with Better Stack
  8. Team and account management
    1. Team management
    2. Account settings
    3. Audit logs
    4. Migrating to pay as you go
  9. Uptime API
    1. Get an API token
    2. Monitors
    3. Heartbeats
    4. On-call & incidents
    5. Status pages
    6. Metadata
    7. Integrations

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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