Domain Monitoring & Alerting
Stay ahead of every change across your entire client portfolio. Albaspot checks DNS records every 15 minutes and monitors SSL expiry, domain expiry, and email security posture — alerting you the moment something shifts.
MONITORING COVERAGE
What Albaspot monitors
Four categories of continuous monitoring — all from the same dashboard, across every client domain.
01
DNS record changes
- Detects when any DNS record is added, modified, or deleted
- Compares the live external DNS against what Albaspot expects
- Alerts immediately on unexpected changes
- Full monitoring history per domain
02
SSL certificate expiry
- Tracks expiry date for all domains with SSL monitoring enabled
- Configurable advance warning periods (30, 14, 7 days, etc.)
- Alert escalation as expiry approaches
- Flagged in both the domain view and monitoring dashboard
03
Domain expiry
- Monitors registration expiry date for all managed domains
- Configurable alert lead times to trigger renewals in time
- Separate from auto-renew — alerts even if auto-renew is on
- Works alongside SSL expiry alerts per domain
04
Email security drift
- Detects if DMARC policy changes from a higher to lower enforcement level
- SPF record modification alerts
- DKIM selector missing or changed
- Part of the same alert and notification system as DNS monitoring
PER-DOMAIN CONFIGURATION
Configure monitoring exactly as you need
Monitoring is enabled per domain. Once enabled, you configure alert thresholds, notification preferences, and monitoring frequency from the domain settings. You can pause monitoring for 24 hours (for planned maintenance) and resume it automatically.
- Enable or disable monitoring per domain individually
- Pause monitoring for a defined window (planned maintenance)
- Configure alert lead times per alert type
- View full monitoring history per domain
- Re-check NS delegation on demand from the domain view
ALERT DELIVERY
Alerts delivered where you need them
In-app notifications appear in the dashboard and are cleared as you acknowledge them. Email notifications go to the team members you've configured as alert recipients.
01
In-app notifications
Alerts visible in the Albaspot dashboard notification centre — see everything at a glance when you log in.
02
Email notifications
Delivered to configured team member email addresses. Configure per-team-member notification preferences.
03
Webhook alerts
DMARC alert rules support webhook delivery for integration with Slack, Teams, or any HTTP endpoint. Test delivery directly from the alert configuration.
ALERT HISTORY
Alert history and QBR reporting
Every alert Albaspot generates is stored in a timestamped alert history per domain. When a client asks "what happened to our email last month?" or "why did the DNS change?", the answer is already there.
The alert history makes quarterly business reviews straightforward: pull up the activity for any client, filter by alert type, and you have a ready-made record of what was detected, when it was resolved, and what protective action was taken.
- Full alert history per domain — indefinitely retained
- Filter by alert type: DNS, SSL, domain expiry, DMARC drift
- Timestamps, resolution status, and acknowledged-by tracking
- Duplicate alert suppression — one alert per event, not per check cycle
Know before your clients do
Set up monitoring across all your client domains and stay ahead of every change, expiry, and drift.