Site settings

Customise how DomainDash monitors each of your sites.

Overview

Every site you add to DomainDash comes with sensible defaults, but you can fine-tune the settings to match how your site works and what matters most to you. Settings are organised into tabs, each covering a different aspect of monitoring.

Getting to site settings

There are two ways to reach settings for a specific site:

• From the site detail page, click the three-dot menu in the toolbar and select Settings.
• From the site detail page, the breadcrumb trail at the top of the settings page links back to the site overview and your dashboard.

Settings tabs

Site settings are split across five tabs. Each tab has its own save button, so you can update one area without affecting the others.

General

The General tab covers the basics: your site's identity and which types of monitoring are turned on.

Friendly name

Give your site a human-readable name, like "Marketing site" or "Client portal", so it's easy to find on your dashboard. This is optional; if you leave it blank, DomainDash shows the domain instead.

What we monitor

Four toggles control which types of check DomainDash runs for this site:

Toggle	What it does
Uptime and response speed	Checks whether your site is online and responding quickly
Security certificate	Monitors your SSL certificate and warns you before it expires
Domain routing	Checks that visitors can find your site via DNS
Domain registration	Monitors your domain registration and warns you before it expires

Each toggle can be turned on or off independently. If you turn off uptime monitoring, the other check types continue to run. To pause everything at once, use the Pause monitoring option from the site detail page's three-dot menu instead.

Pausing vs. turning off

Pausing (from the site menu) switches off all monitoring types in one go and shows the site as "Paused" on your dashboard. Turning off individual toggles here lets you keep some checks running while disabling others. This is useful if, for example, you manage DNS elsewhere and don't need DomainDash to track it.

Uptime

The Uptime tab controls how, where, and how often DomainDash checks your site's availability.

Path

By default, DomainDash checks your homepage (/). If you have a dedicated health check endpoint or a specific page you care about, set the path here. The full URL is previewed below the input so you can double-check it.

Expected response

DomainDash expects your site to return a 200 OK status code by default. If the page you're monitoring is supposed to redirect (like a login page that sends you somewhere else), change this to the expected code, for example 301 or 302, so DomainDash doesn't flag it as a problem.

Frequency

Choose how often DomainDash checks your site, from every minute to every 15 minutes. More frequent checks catch problems faster, but less frequent checks are perfectly fine for sites that don't change often.

Monitoring regions

Pick where DomainDash checks your site from:

• Primary region is the location closest to most of your visitors. This is where the majority of your checks run.
• Secondary region is an optional second location for comparison. If your site is slower from one region, you'll see it clearly on the response time chart.

See Regional checks for more on how multi-region monitoring works.

Security

The Security tab controls how often DomainDash checks your SSL certificate.

SSL certificates don't change very often, so checking a few times a day is usually enough. Set the frequency anywhere from every 30 minutes to once a day.

If SSL monitoring is turned off on the General tab, this tab shows a notice with a link to re-enable it.

Routing

The Routing tab controls how often DomainDash checks your DNS records.

DNS records also tend to be stable, so a few checks a day is usually plenty. The frequency options range from every 30 minutes to once a day.

If DNS monitoring is turned off on the General tab, this tab shows a notice with a link to re-enable it.

Registration

The Registration tab controls how often DomainDash checks your domain's WHOIS data (the public record of domain ownership).

Since domain registrations change even less frequently than DNS or SSL, the frequency options are wider, from every 6 hours to once a week.

If domain registration monitoring is turned off on the General tab, this tab shows a notice with a link to re-enable it.

Related

• Regional checks for how multi-region monitoring works
• Notification channels to choose how you're alerted when something goes wrong
• Site detail page to see the impact of your settings on your site's overview