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DNS Performance Monitoring

Thousands of companies around the world rely on Catbird’s DNS Performance monitoring because:

• Proper DNS routing means customer experience is optimal, e-mail is routed quickly and efficiently.
• Quick detection of a bad DNS means rapid correction of errors, allowing minimal impact on customer’s perceptions.

Catbird pioneered DNS performance monitoring with:

• Detailed analysis decomposing DNS performance,
• Automated trace-routes from geographically distributed points on the internet, allowing varying frequencies,
• Historical performance analysis with real-time, user-defined, warnings and alerts.

Why do companies worry about DNS and DNS performance?

What is DNS and how does it work?

DNS is your address on the Internet. Every action taken on the Internet depends on DNS for routing and performance. Proper DNS configuration is essential to the success of any on-line business, and with the growing importance of internet sales and advertising, DNS security and performance is critical.

The domain name system (DNS) refers to the worldwide-distributed database that maps all of the world's host names to their proper IP addresses. Domain Name Servers (DNS) are the first systems contacted when a customer looks for your website, or sends you an email. It’s the last place you want to have trouble. The Catbird DNS Server Monitor guarantees the integrity of your DNS and measures the performance of your DNS provider or publicly available DNS records.

So that your domain is always recognized and accessible to customers, the Catbird DNS Server Monitor watches all of your critical DNS records. If DNS performance falls below, customer-defined thresholds, , Catbird agents immediately alert you via pager or email. Companies with multiple servers can take advantage of the DNS Cluster Monitor, which monitors all of your DNS servers to ensure that customers are successfully routed to your site by any one of the active servers. Catbird maintains a historical record of DNS performance to allow customers to track, measure and alert against historical benchmarks.

Catbird is an innovator in the area of DNS performance and security monitoring. While most companies continue to rely on anecdotal feedback for DNS monitoring, many are beginning to recognize the risks associated with this approach. Since DNS outages can be momentary and limited in scope, companies are unable to neither reproduce the problem nor hold their service provider accountable. With Catbird’s DNS Performance monitoring there is a better way.

How does it work?