Want to periodically monitor DNS records for your website? Here are step by step instructions how to accomplish this with AppBeat: click on “Add new periodic monitor” button and select DNS agent type enter domain you want to monitor you can create custom regular expression rules which will be used for DNS response validation optionally you can test your rules to ensure they are returning status “Good” click “Finish” button Your DNS entries will now be periodically monitored from our agents all around world - you will receive notification if anomaly is detected.

With newest version of AppBeat you can now periodically run Whois for your domain: You can customize notification rules to receive message when domain is about to expire or set custom regular expression for Whois response: For example, you can set regular expression to ensure correct name servers, registrant name, domain status, or any other information returned from Whois server. Please let us know if you have any questions about this feature.

We published small update, where you can now enable detailed certificate validation which checks for name mismatch, chain validation errors and other common issues. You can enable this feature by adding new server certificate check or editing existing one: Happy monitoring!

Login to your AppBeat account (or create new one if you don’t have it yet). Click “Add new periodic monitor” and select “SSL Certificate” as shown on screenshot below: Click “Next” button and enter your URL: Click “Next” and close wizard with “Finish”. Your certificate will now be periodically monitored and when it is about to expire (30 days or less - you can change this in check settings), you will automatically receive notification (we support email, SMS, Slack, web hooks, …).

In newest AppBeat version 1.7.0 you can now define quiet hours for your users, services and/or third-party integrations (I will refer to these as “resources”). Quiet hours are recurring time periods during which alerts (outgoing notifications) are muted for selected resource(s). Quiet hours does not affect monitoring, just notifications. This means that you will always be able to check log entries, even during effective quiet hours. You can access this new feature from “Alerting” module and by clicking “Quiet hours” tab as shown below: