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MonitoNIC: Real-Time DNS Monitoring and Diagnostics
Continuous, real-time monitoring of your DNS infrastructure with anomaly detection, performance analytics and automated alerting. MonitoNIC gives you complete observability over your authoritative and recursive DNS services from a single dashboard.
Key Capabilities
What this solution delivers
Real-Time Query Analytics
Live dashboards showing query volumes, response times, record types, geographic distribution and error rates. Drill down by zone, server, region or time period to understand exactly how your DNS is performing.
Automated Alerting
Configurable alerts triggered by anomalies in query patterns, response latency thresholds, DNSSEC validation failures, zone propagation delays or server health changes. Notifications via email, webhook or integration with your existing monitoring stack.
Anomaly Detection
AI-powered anomaly detection identifies unusual query patterns that may indicate DDoS attacks, DNS tunnelling, cache poisoning attempts or zone misconfiguration. Baseline behaviour is learned automatically and alerts are raised when deviations exceed configured thresholds.
DNSSEC Health Monitoring
Continuous validation of DNSSEC chain of trust, signature expiry tracking, key rollover monitoring and DS record consistency checks. Alerts before signatures expire or keys approach end of life.
Infrastructure Health
Server-level monitoring including CPU, memory, disk, network utilisation and DNS process status. Correlate infrastructure metrics with DNS performance to identify resource bottlenecks before they affect service quality.
Zone Propagation Tracking
Monitor the propagation of zone changes across all secondary servers in real time. Verify that updates have been applied consistently and identify any servers that are lagging or serving stale data.
Technical Details
How it works
Data Collection
MonitoNIC collects DNS telemetry from multiple sources: passive query logging on authoritative and recursive servers, active probing from external vantage points, SNMP and API-based infrastructure metrics, and DNSSEC validation chain checks. Data is normalised and stored in a time-series database for fast querying and historical analysis.
Dashboard and Reporting
A web-based dashboard provides real-time and historical views of all monitored metrics. Custom dashboards can be configured per zone, per server or per client. Scheduled reports are generated automatically for compliance and operational review, including trends, incidents and recommendations.
AI-Powered Analytics
Machine learning models trained on DNS traffic patterns identify anomalies that rule-based systems would miss. The system learns the normal baseline for each zone and server, then flags deviations such as sudden query spikes, unusual record type distributions, geographic shifts in traffic or patterns consistent with DNS amplification attacks.
Integration
MonitoNIC integrates with existing monitoring and incident management platforms via webhooks, syslog, SNMP traps and REST API. Pre-built integrations are available for common SIEM platforms. Alert routing supports escalation policies and on-call schedules.
Capacity Planning
Historical trend analysis supports capacity planning by projecting future query volumes, storage requirements and infrastructure needs. This helps organisations anticipate growth and provision resources proactively rather than reactively.
Incident Forensics
When an incident occurs, MonitoNIC provides detailed forensic data including query logs, traffic patterns, affected zones, geographic origin of anomalous traffic and timeline reconstruction. This supports both real-time response and post-incident analysis for NIS2 reporting.
Use Cases
Who benefits from this solution
Enterprises with distributed DNS infrastructure across multiple providers
Security operations teams requiring DNS-layer threat detection
Organisations subject to NIS2 incident detection and reporting requirements
DNS administrators managing large zone portfolios across many servers
Any organisation that needs to demonstrate DNS uptime and performance to auditors
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this solution
Yes. MonitoNIC can monitor any DNS infrastructure you control, regardless of who operates it. External monitoring probes test your authoritative servers from multiple global vantage points. If you grant access, we can also deploy internal collectors for deeper telemetry. This makes MonitoNIC suitable for hybrid environments where some DNS is managed in-house and some is outsourced.
Detection time depends on the type of anomaly. Sudden spikes (such as DDoS attacks) are typically detected within seconds. Gradual drift (such as a slow increase in error rates) may take minutes to hours depending on the configured sensitivity. DNSSEC signature expiry alerts are raised days before the actual expiry date to allow time for remediation.
MonitoNIC stores aggregated DNS metrics (query counts, response times, error rates) and infrastructure health data. Raw query logs are retained for 90 days by default (configurable). All data is processed and stored within European infrastructure in accordance with GDPR. Longer retention periods can be configured for compliance purposes.
Yes. MonitoNIC provides REST API, webhook, syslog and SNMP interfaces for integration with SIEM platforms, incident management systems and dashboarding tools. Pre-built integrations are available for common platforms. Custom integrations can be developed on request.
Get complete visibility over your DNS infrastructure
Connect with our team to discuss how MonitoNIC can give you real-time observability, anomaly detection and compliance reporting for your DNS environment.