Changelog

Today marks an exciting milestone as RBLTracker becomes Generator Labs. This rebrand reflects our evolution and vision for the future as we expand beyond blocklist monitoring into a comprehensive infrastructure monitoring platform.

What This Means for You

If you're an existing customer, absolutely nothing changes on your end. Your account credentials work exactly as before, all your monitoring continues uninterrupted, and your pricing stays the same. We've handled everything behind the scenes to make this transition seamless.

The New Website

Along with the rebrand, we've launched a completely redesigned website. The new site features a modern interface that's fully responsive across all devices, improved navigation to help you find what you need faster, and better organized documentation and resources.

Why Generator Labs?

As we've grown, we've been working on expanding our monitoring capabilities beyond RBL monitoring. With certificate monitoring and TLS configuration analysis on the horizon, the RBLTracker name no longer captured where we're headed. Generator Labs better represents our mission to generate reliable monitoring solutions for businesses of all sizes, both now and in the future.

Learn More

Visit our transition guide for more details about the rebrand and what it means for your monitoring services.

We've added support for Microsoft Smart Network Data Services (SNDS), giving you deeper insights into how Microsoft views your email sending reputation.

Understanding SNDS

Microsoft SNDS provides valuable data about email sent from your IP addresses to Microsoft email services including Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, and MSN.com. This service helps you understand your reputation from Microsoft's perspective and catch potential deliverability issues before they impact your users.

What You Can Monitor

Our SNDS integration automatically retrieves your reputation data and tracks key metrics like spam complaint rates, spam trap hits, message volume, and overall IP reputation scores. You'll get real-time monitoring with historical trend analysis, so you can spot patterns and address issues proactively.

Getting Started

Check out our documentation for a detailed setup guide.

We've added native support for AWS CloudWatch and AWS SNS, making it easier than ever to integrate our monitoring with your existing AWS infrastructure.

CloudWatch Metrics

Our CloudWatch integration automatically publishes your monitoring metrics to your AWS account. This means you can view RBL listing events right alongside your other AWS metrics.

Visit our CloudWatch integration guide for step-by-step instructions.

SNS Notifications

With SNS support, you can publish alerts to any SNS topic and fan them out to multiple endpoints. This opens up powerful automation possibilities—forward alerts to Lambda functions for automated remediation, send notifications to multiple Slack channels or email lists, or archive everything to S3 for compliance.

Visit our SNS integration guide for step-by-step instructions.

We've expanded our DNS security monitoring by adding three new blocklist sources: DNS4EU, AdGuard, and Control-D.

Why More Sources Matter

Different DNS security providers use different filtering methodologies and data sources. By monitoring against multiple providers, you get broader threat coverage and can detect regional blocking issues that might only appear in certain resolver networks. This also helps reduce false positives—if your domain is blocked by one provider but not others, it's worth investigating whether it's a legitimate concern or an overly aggressive filter.

The New Sources

• DNS4EU is the European Union's public DNS resolver with a focus on privacy and GDPR compliance. It provides malware and phishing protection while respecting user privacy.

• AdGuard DNS specializes in ad and tracker blocking with family protection filters. If you're running any ad-supported services, monitoring against AdGuard helps ensure you're not inadvertently blocked.

• Control-D brings modern DNS filtering with custom blocklist management and advanced filtering capabilities. Their geographic routing options mean they can provide regional blocking insights that other providers might miss.

We've expanded our webhook capabilities with new event types covering billing, account management, and RBL monitoring.

Billing and Account Events

Our webhook system now supports seven billing-related events: account balance threshold alerts, auto-recharge success and failure notifications, billing package renewals, credit card expiration warnings, and plan expiration alerts. This makes it straightforward to integrate billing activities into your internal systems—notify your finance team when auto-recharge fails, or track renewals in your accounting software.

RBL Monitoring Events

We've added webhooks for host check lifecycle events. Subscribe to notifications when host checks are initiated and completed. Combined with existing listing and delisting events, you get complete visibility into your monitoring operations.

Testing

Validate webhook configurations by selecting a webhook, clicking "Send Test," and choosing an event type. You'll see the complete response including status codes, timing, TLS details, and headers.

Configuration

Set up webhooks through Dev → Webhooks in the portal. Each webhook needs a display name and a publicly accessible HTTP(s) endpoint URL. You can subscribe to multiple event types per webhook.

We're regularly adding new event types. Visit our webhook documentation for complete details on payload schemas and available events.

We're excited to roll out our completely redesigned management portal with major improvements to performance, user experience, and functionality.

A Modern Interface

The new portal features a clean, intuitive design that works seamlessly across all your devices. We've added dark mode support for late-night monitoring sessions and improved accessibility throughout.

Better Host Management

Managing large numbers of hosts is significantly easier now. We've added bulk import and export capabilities, tag-based organization, and quick edit functionality that lets you update multiple hosts at once.

Automatic Migration

The new portal is now live at portal.generatorlabs.com. All existing accounts have been migrated automatically—your credentials and all your data remain exactly the same. Just log in and start exploring the new features.

Visit our portal guide to learn about everything that's new.