UptimePad includes DNS monitoring on every plan, including the free tier. It watches your A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records and alerts you when a record changes, disappears, or drifts from what you expect, so a silent edit or a hijacked record is more likely to be caught before customers report it.
| Tool | DNS monitoring | Record types | Fastest check | Status pages | Monthly price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UptimePad Free No card, commercial use allowed | ✓ | A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS | 5 min | 1 public | $0 |
| UptimePad Starter | ✓ | All supported types | 1 min | 1 custom domain | $12 |
| UptimePad Pro | ✓ | All supported types | 1 min | 3 pages | $39 |
| UptimePad Scale | ✓ | All supported types | 30 sec | 5 pages | $99 |
DNS is the layer almost nobody watches until it breaks, and when it breaks the symptoms look like everything else: the site is “down,” email stops arriving, a subdomain 404s. DNS monitoring is continuous verification that the records resolving your domain are still the records you intended. It catches:
On every check, UptimePad resolves your records from the enabled probe regions, compares what came back against the last known-good answer, and alerts your channels the moment something changed. Because DNS lives on the same monitor as your HTTP and SSL checks, a single timeline shows cause and effect: you can see the DNS edit, then the failed request, instead of guessing why the site went red. Alerts route to Email, Slack, Discord, Telegram, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, OpsGenie, a signed webhook, or Web Push, depending on your plan.
Need a one-off answer right now? The free DNS checker resolves A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, NS, SOA, and CAA records for any domain with no signup. DNS monitoring is the continuous version: it runs that lookup on a schedule, remembers the expected answer, and tells you when it changes. Both are part of the same product, and continuous DNS monitoring is on the free plan alongside SSL monitoring and 10 uptime monitors.
Yes. DNS monitoring and SSL monitoring are both on the UptimePad Free plan, with no credit card and commercial use allowed. The free tier covers 10 monitors at a 5-minute interval. This is a deliberate difference from tools that reserve SSL or DNS for paid tiers.
A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, and NS records on the standard monitor, with SOA and CAA also available through the free DNS checker tool. UptimePad compares the resolved answer to the last known-good value and alerts you on any change.
On the same cadence as your monitor: as fast as every 30 seconds on Scale, every minute on Starter and Pro, and every 5 minutes on Free. The change is detected on the next check after the record changes.
Yes. Monitoring your MX and TXT records catches the changes that silently break email: a dropped MX record that stops delivery, or an edited SPF, DKIM, or DMARC TXT record that sends your mail to spam.
It detects the symptom: if an A or NS record changes to a value you did not set, UptimePad alerts you immediately. That sudden, unexpected record change is the first measurable evidence of a DNS hijack or a dangling-subdomain takeover.
An uptime ping tells you the site answered. DNS monitoring tells you the records pointing to the site are still correct. They fail independently: DNS can be wrong while the server is perfectly healthy, and you want to catch that before traffic and email are misrouted.
Create a free account, add your domain, and turn on DNS monitoring alongside SSL and uptime checks. No credit card, commercial use allowed.
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