WatchEvery record type
Resolve A, AAAA, MX, TXT, NS or CNAME records and verify they still return the right answer.
DNS checks
DNS monitoring that catches changes before your users do
Add DNS record checks to your WatchControl monitors — confirm your A, MX, TXT and other records still resolve to the values you expect, and get alerted the moment they don't.
Catch hijacks & drift
Pin an expected value — an IP, a mail host, an SPF string — and we alert if a record changes or disappears.
Propagation & outages
A registrar glitch or a botched change that drops your records is caught on your normal check schedule.
Alerts where you work
Email and webhook on every plan, plus SMS, routed to the tools your team already uses.
Why it matters
When DNS breaks, everything breaks
DNS is the first thing every request depends on — and one wrong edit, an expired delegation or a hijacked record can take your whole domain offline or silently redirect users and email. Because changes propagate quietly, the first sign is often customers who simply can't reach you.
WatchControl watches the records that matter — your website's A record, your mail MX, your SPF and DKIM TXT records — and tells you the moment they stop matching what you expect. Combine it with SSL, HTTP and SMTP checks for full coverage of every layer a request travels through.
Beyond DNS change alerts
Need your full DNS & email-security posture?
WatchControl alerts you when a record changes. If you need to continuously map your domains, DNS, SPF/DMARC and external attack surface — with discovery and compliance reporting — that is CertControl, our security-posture platform from the same team at Certiva.
Many teams run both: WatchControl tells you the instant a record breaks; CertControl keeps the whole domain and email posture mapped and audit-ready.
Watch your DNS in minutes
Add a domain, pick a record type and the value you expect — free to start.