New domain alerts

The migration from traps to alerts is now completed, and we’ve added some new alerts for domains. You can now choose to set alerts for:

• Whois domain available
• Whois domain registered
• Whois record found
• Whois domain changed registrar
• Whois record changed
• Whois record expired
• Whois record expires next week
• Whois record expires in two weeks
• Whois record expires in three weeks

Development time in the coming period will be spent on adding more configurable alerts, expanding the use for tags, and hunting for bugs. If you see any bugs or other annoying things, please report them!

Naughty node - database error

Yesterday some client reported problems using the Shadowtrackr webinterface. After some initial patchwork the root cause was found: a faulty database node.

The transaction logs one this specific node had grown too big, and were somehow not rotated. This resulted in a full disk, and errors for all queries sent to this database node. If you ended up on this node yesterday, you might have experienced problems logging in or viewing data.

Overnight I’ve rebuild the database node an have taken measures to make sure this doesn’t happen again. I apologize for all the trouble.

Too many alerts

Recent changes in in the certificate module have resulted in ShadowTrackr tracking more information and certificates, on more ip addresses. While this is a positive thing, it has unfortunately also resulted in too many alerts for some clients, and we apologize for that. The alerts are all technically correct, but there were just too many of them to be useful. That is not how we want things, and default alert settings have changed. From now on, we’ll only send you an alert if a certificate or TLS server is downgraded. If a bad certificate has renewed, you will see it in reports and the GUI, but you will not receive an alert. Do note that alerts can be configured now, so if you still want to receive all alerts (or want to switch off the downgrade alert), that is possible too.