Alerts where you already are.
Downtime, recoveries, expiring domains and certificates, and DNS changes reach you in Slack, by push on the iOS app and by email, written so you can act on them from the notification.
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# ops-alerts
6Domain PilotApp9:00 AM
🔒 SSL Certificate Expiring: acme-store.com
Domain:
Expires:
⚠️ Please renew the SSL certificate to avoid downtime
Message #ops-alerts
Domain Pilot2:02 PM
🚨 Alert: northwind.studio is DOWN
Friday, October 30
14:02
14:02:05
First failed check
Europe · connection timed out
14:02:35
Confirmed from a second region
North America · connection timed out
14:02:35
Alerts sent
Slack, push and email
14:06:47
Back up
Resolved after 4m 12s
Everything that can go wrong with a domain.
Not just downtime. The quiet failures, an expired certificate, a changed nameserver, a lapsed renewal, get the same attention.
Down and back up
An incident opens when a second region confirms the outage, with the cause and region, and closes itself with how long it lasted.
Expiring and expired domains
Reminders 90 to 1 day out, an extra warning when auto-renew is off, and a daily alert once a domain has lapsed.
SSL certificates
A daily reminder from 30 days before a certificate expires, and an alert if it does.
DNS changes
Nameserver, A, AAAA and MX records are compared hourly against public resolvers. Changed nameservers are flagged as critical.
Parked or hijacked
If a site turns into a parking page, a “coming soon” page or looks hijacked, you hear about it and its monitoring is set aside.
Flapping
Three outages within an hour switch the domain to one hourly digest, so a shaky host doesn’t bury you in alerts.
Notifications
Each alert, where you want it.
Send outages to Slack and your phone, keep renewals to email, or the other way round. Every event can go to any mix of channels.
# ops-alerts
6Domain PilotApp2:02 PM
Incident started for northwind.studio
Monitor:
Cause:
Checked URL:
GET https://northwind.studio/Response:
Connection timed outRegion:
⚠️ Incident · 🌐 Monitor
Incident started at October 30 at 02:02:35 PM
Message #ops-alerts
Slack in two clicks.
Add to Slack, pick a channel, done. Messages arrive as Slack attachments with the cause, region and checked URL, and links straight to the incident.
Alerts, answered.
Which channels can alerts go to?
Email, Slack, push notifications on the Domain Pilot iOS app, and browser notifications. Email and push are on every plan; Slack is on Starter and up.
How do I connect Slack?
Click Add to Slack, sign in to your workspace and choose the channel. Pasting a Slack incoming webhook URL works too.
Can I choose which alerts go where?
Yes. Turn email, Slack and push on or off separately for uptime alerts, expiring domains, expired domains, expiring SSL certificates and DNS changes.
Will I get an alert for every blip?
No. An outage has to be confirmed from a second region before anyone is alerted, and a domain that goes down three times in an hour switches to an hourly digest.
Do you support SMS or webhooks?
Not today. Alerts go to email, Slack, push and the browser.