DNS Check vs ZoneWatcher
DNS Check
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ZoneWatcher
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| Figure | DNS Check | ZoneWatcher |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $8/mo | $1.17/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 6 |
| Spec score · DNS Monitoring Software | 8.4 (#8) | 7.3 (#33) |
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Notifications | Notification options include email, PagerDuty, and Slack on all plans. | Supported notification channels include email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, webhooks, GitHub Issues, Jira, and HaloPSA. |
| Support | The contact page invites feature requests and provides a contact form, phone number, email, and postal address. | ZoneWatcher provides support at [email protected], and the Control plan includes priority support. |
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
ZoneWatcher
- Monitor$1.40 a month
- Protect$2.50 a month
- Control$4 a month
- Monitor$14 a year
- Protect$25 a year
- Control$40 a year
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.
ZoneWatcher
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