Email alerts for
SSL, DNS & uptime monitoring
The always-on alert belt — included on every plan.
How it works
How Merlonix delivers to Email
Email is the default channel every Merlonix account starts with. Alerts go to the address (or addresses) you configure and are available on every plan, including the free tier — so a $0 account still gets notified the moment a certificate, DNS record, registration, or response changes.
Included on every plan, including Free — no upgrade needed for the baseline belt.
Add more than one recipient so the whole team, or a distribution list, is covered.
The same asset can send email plus a chat or on-call channel, so nothing rides on a single inbox.
Setup
Set up Email in three steps
Step 1
Create a free Merlonix account and add an asset — email alerts are on by default.
Step 2
Add or change recipient addresses in your notification settings.
Step 3
Upgrade later if you want chat, webhook, or on-call channels alongside email.
What fires an alert
The delivery channel changes; the monitoring doesn’t
Every alert carries the same context regardless of destination: which client asset changed, which check fired (SSL-certificate expiry or change, DNS-record drift, domain registration/expiry, uptime, DNSSEC, security headers, blocklist status, and more), and what specifically changed. Alerts fire on real state changes between definitive checks — not on a transient blip.
- SSL / TLS monitoring
- DNS & DNSSEC monitoring
- Domain-hijack & registrar-lock monitoring
- Security-header monitoring
Email is one of ten delivery destinations, and Merlonix also runs on-call rotations and escalation policies so the right person is paged. See alerting & on-call →
Other destinations
Prefer a different channel?
Merlonix delivers the same alerts to every destination your team already uses.
Common questions
Frequently asked questions
Which Merlonix plan includes Email alerts?
Email alert delivery is available on Every plan, including the free tier. You can start on the free plan and add Email when you are on the qualifying tier.
What do Email alerts actually contain?
Every alert carries the same context regardless of destination: which client asset changed, which check fired (SSL-certificate expiry or change, DNS-record drift, domain registration/expiry, uptime, DNSSEC, security headers, blocklist status, and more), and what specifically changed. Alerts fire on real state changes between definitive checks — not on a transient blip. The Email message carries that same context, so a responder can triage from the alert itself.
Can I use Email alongside other channels?
Yes. A single asset can send to Email and other destinations at once — for example email plus a chat channel plus an on-call channel — so no alert rides on one delivery path. Merlonix supports email, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, Google Chat, a generic webhook, SMS, PagerDuty, and Opsgenie.
Do I need access to my clients’ servers to monitor them?
No. Merlonix probes each domain from the outside in — its public SSL certificate, DNS records, registration data, and HTTP responses — the same way a browser or resolver would. You add an asset by hostname; the Email channel just decides where the resulting alert is delivered.
Wire monitoring into Email today
SSL, DNS, uptime, and vendor-aware alerts across every client asset — delivered where your team already works. Start free, no credit card.