What CrowWake watches
Plain-English guides for every CrowWake check — what it means and what to do when something breaks.
SPF
What is an SPF record? (plain English)
SPF monitoring
SPF monitoring: watch the guest list before mail breaks
DKIM
What is DKIM? Email’s tamper-evident seal
DKIM monitoring
DKIM monitoring: watch selectors before the seal breaks
DMARC
What is DMARC? The policy that stops spoofing
DMARC monitoring
DMARC monitoring: watch _dmarc before spoofers do
Email auth
What is email authentication? SPF, DKIM and DMARC together
Email auth monitoring
Email authentication monitoring: watch SPF, DKIM and DMARC as one flock
Domain monitoring
Domain monitoring: watch DNS, email auth, SSL and uptime as one flock
MX
What is an MX record? Where your email is delivered
MX monitoring
MX monitoring: watch inbound hosts before mail goes dark
DNS A
What is an A record? Name to IPv4
DNS monitoring
DNS monitoring: catch a silent A-record wipe early
Apex domain
What is an apex domain? Zone apex, bare domain, apex record
Apex monitoring
Apex domain monitoring: watch the zone apex before the bare name goes dark
CNAME at apex
CNAME at apex: why it breaks (ALIAS, ANAME, flattening)
SSL certificate expired
SSL certificate expired: what the browser warning means (and how to fix it)
SSL monitoring
SSL certificate monitoring: watch expiry before browsers scream
Security
Obvious web security: HSTS, clickjacking, HTTPS redirects, open ports
Security headers monitoring
Security headers monitoring: watch HSTS, nosniff, framing & HTTPS redirect
Open ports
What is an open port scanner? Risky ports in plain English
HSTS
What is HSTS? HTTP Strict-Transport-Security explained
X-Frame-Options
What is X-Frame-Options? Stop clickjacking in plain English
HTTPS redirect
HTTP to HTTPS redirect: force HTTPS in plain English
X-Content-Type-Options
Missing X-Content-Type-Options header: nosniff and how to fix
CAA record
What is a CAA record? Check CAA records (tester) in plain English
CAA monitoring
CAA monitoring: watch the issuance allow-list before renew fails
MTA-STS
What is MTA-STS? Mail TLS policy + free MTA-STS checker
MTA-STS monitoring
MTA-STS monitoring: watch mail TLS policy before cleartext returns
BIMI
What is BIMI? Brand logos in the inbox
BIMI monitoring
BIMI monitoring: watch inbox brand-mark DNS before the logo vanishes
TLS-RPT monitoring
TLS-RPT monitoring: watch TLS reporting before failures go silent
TLS-RPT / TLS reporting
What is TLS-RPT? TLS reporting + free TLS-RPT checker
Website monitoring
Website monitoring: is the HTTPS homepage answering?
Uptime monitoring
Uptime monitoring: watch HTTPS so downtime crows early
HTTP status monitoring
HTTP status monitoring: watch 2xx vs 4xx/5xx before “site down” is vague
Website
Website up: is there a real HTTPS homepage?
Expiry
Domain expiry via RDAP: renew before the brand dies
Expiry monitoring
Domain expiry monitoring: WHOIS/RDAP before the name dies
TTFB
What is TTFB? Time to First Byte in plain English
Performance monitoring
Website performance monitoring: watch TTFB before tickets pile up
Performance
Why we pulse HTTPS speed (TTFB-style)
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