DNS Check vs Metric Tower
DNS Check
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| Figure | DNS Check | Metric Tower |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 1 |
| Spec score · DNS Monitoring Software | 8.4 (#8) | 7.6 (#25) |
| Monitoring | It monitors DNS records and name servers for changes and lookup failures, with notifications when something changes. | Infrastructure monitoring covers nine monitor types, including uptime, DNS, SSL, certificate-transparency logs, cron jobs, ports, blocklists, CSP, and dead-man workflows. |
Plans
DNS Check
- BasicFree
- Professional$8 a month
- Enterprise$60 a month
- Enterprise x2$90 a month
- Enterprise x3$120 a month
- CustomPriced on request
In their own words
DNS Check
DNS Check monitors DNS records and name servers for changes, lookup failures and troubleshooting issues. Automated checks run every five minutes on all plans, with one-click rechecks, record history and shareable read-only reports. The checker compares entered records with DNS responses and can flag unresponsive name servers, missing or duplicate records and invalid SPF records. Fourteen record types are supported, including A, AAAA, ALIAS, CAA, CNAME, HTTPS, MX, NS, PTR, SOA, SPF, SRV, SVCB and TXT. Notifications can use email, PagerDuty and Slack on all plans, with listed integrations including Basecamp, Jira Service Management, Nagios, OpsGenie, Pingdom and Splunk On-Call. The REST API returns JSON, uses API keys and is available to every account for individual records or groups. Basic is free for 10 records and seven days of history. Professional costs $8 a month, or $80 yearly, for 100 records and 90 days. Higher plans cover up to 3,000 records; more requires a quote.
Metric Tower
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