Can I silence DNS record change notifications?

Yes. DNS change notifications are useful in principle (unexpected DNS changes can indicate a breach or a misconfigured deploy) but they're noisy in environments where DNS is managed programmatically. You have a few options.

Silence DNS change alerts per notification channel

Each notification channel has a list of events it subscribes to. To stop a channel from receiving DNS change alerts:

  1. Open the monitor or team-level notification settings.
  2. Click the notification channel you want to edit.
  3. Uncheck DNS records changed.
  4. Save.

Other DNS-related alerts (like "DNS issue found" or "DNS issue fixed") are separate events, so you can keep those on while silencing just the change-detection noise.

Silence DNS change alerts globally

If you want to disable DNS change detection entirely for a monitor:

  1. Open the monitor's DNS check settings.
  2. Toggle Notify on DNS record changes off.
  3. Save.

The DNS check still runs and still flags DNS problems (invalid records, unreachable nameservers), but it stops firing the "records changed" event.

Snooze DNS alerts temporarily

If you're about to make deliberate DNS changes and don't want to hear about them, snooze the DNS check for a few hours or days. Alerts resume automatically after the snooze expires.

Ignore specific record types

You can also configure the DNS check to ignore certain record types (for example, TXT records that change often for email deliverability). That's in the monitor's DNS check settings under Ignored record types.

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