DNS service management tools are currently considered a crucial element by many organizations, as they simplify the administration and issue detecting activities for admins. Along with streamlining DNS service for elevating organization’s network service for clients.
Despite managing and automating DNS activities across different DNS service providers, every DNS tool has one key feature that every organization relies on: DNS monitoring.
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What is DNS monitoring?
DNS monitoring is the process of integrated monitoring checkups through your organization’s entire DNS network, analyzing the status, health, and performance. When an issue or threat is detected, DNS monitoring will alert the admin team for earlier troubleshooting and improved network efficiency. This guides you in detecting DNS issues from the server side and client side.
ManageEngine’s CloudDNS provides four types of monitoring options. Each have their own purpose of surveying down network connections, websites, DNS responses, and hosts to identify potential downtime or threat.
This ensures the safety of the organization’s network resources, as unauthorized users can’t breach multiple layers of security and surveillance. Network admins are alerted before an unauthorized individual gains access.
Types of DNS monitoring options
There are four types of DNS monitoring options provided in ManageEngine CloudDNS:
TCP monitor
The TCP monitoring option surveys the TCP protocol and the traffic associated with it to ensure proper network connections. TCP is the communication protocol that bridges the gap between the sender and receiver sending bits of data as packets. This protocol is primarily used for file transferring, web browsing, emailing, messaging, etc.
The TCP monitor helps monitor the status of the established connections and data transfer to identify if there is any disconnection. Admins benefit from early troubleshooting of connection issues. You can also monitor dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 infrastructure.
WEBSITE monitor
The WEBSITE monitoring option enables organizations to keep tracking their website’s availability and health and performance. This ensures that the website is working without issues. You can set up alerts through email notifications. You can also enable dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 infrastructure monitoring.
WEBSITE monitoring assures the security and reliability of your website by continuously surveying and updating administrators about the status and issues for easily and early troubleshooting.
PING monitor
The PING monitoring option analyzes the performance of the organization’s network by checking the availability of the IPs/hosts and connected devices. This is done by sending an echo request and ICMP packets with code 0 to all the hosts. Three ICMP packets will be sent, based on which monitor will be considered UP if at least one packet is received. If no packets were received, then the monitor is considered to be DOWN. These insights help admins to resolve and improve responding. You can also monitor dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 infrastructure.
DNS monitor
DNS monitoring option monitors the selected DNS nameserver and ensures DNS translation is done securely and properly. This is done by sending requests of a domain name to the nameserver automatically and checking the DNS responses. Organizations, with the help of DNS monitoring options, secure their DNS service and prevent unauthorized changes made in the records. This increases the reliability as the clients can receive the right IP to the right domain name. You can also monitor dual stack IPv4 and IPv6 infrastructure.
Why consider CloudDNS DNS monitoring for your organization?
CloudDNS’s DNS monitoring feature benefits your organization host management in several ways, Here are four benefits:
Enhance network security
Consistent surveying of hosts help organizations keep an eye on their website, network, connections, and hosts. They will be provided with insights on the flow and performance of them, which helps in early troubleshooting of issues or improvising the performance. These result in security assurance on the network resources for the organization and reliability of the service.
Early troubleshooting
DNS monitoring alerts administrators about poor service performance or a security breach earlier, which helps in resolving the issue immediately before downtime or a potential threat. This increases the security and reliability of the organization’s network.
Ensure record accuracy
DNS monitoring consistently verifies the organization’s record to ensure no external changes have been made. The prevention of unauthorized changes made is crucial as they could disrupt the network service or redirect clients to malicious domains, potentially damaging the organization’s trust and reputation.
Analyze network performance
DNS monitoring options enhance the performance of the organization’s website, hosts, network, and connections by continuously analyzing their current status. These stats will help enhance their performance, so that clients of the organization will receive faster responses all the time.
How can you configure DNS monitoring in CloudDNS?
Open the Monitors option in the side menu and click Add Monitor.
CloudDNS also provides reports for each monitor that enables you to visually analyze the real-time statistics, key perfomance indicators of each monitors.
The four monitoring options will be displayed and select the required option you want configure.
Provide the details in the given fields, the data you provide will help in implementing complete monitoring and alerting process.
Experience streamlined DNS service with CloudDNS’ DNS monitoring to enhance performance and troubleshoot issues in your network
ManageEngine CloudDNS helps you build a secure and reliable network service for your organization with the help DNS monitoring feature. With continuous monitoring over websites, hosts, connections and network services’ performance, health and availability, the admins can get a clear view over these stats and when an issue or threat found, admins will be alerted early for immediate resolving to prevent further causes.
DNS monitoring assures the security of your network resources with the early alerting and visibility. This plays a crucial in reducing downtime of your network services and prevent security breaches by unauthorized users.
CloudDNS will be a trustable choice for you to implement DNS monitoring feature to improve your network stability.
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