Two updates today for DNScaster.

First, we’ve added a new Clone feature for IP Monitors and Boundaries. This parallels similar functionality already available for Hosts and makes quick work of creating new Monitors or Boundaries that are substantially similar to existing ones.

Second, several API resources now sport a new field, properties, suitable for storing per-record metadata as key/value pairs.

This succeeds the prior external_ref field which is now deprecated. Whereas external_ref stored only a single value, properties allows multiple key/value pairs making it much more flexible and perfect for storing data related to the integration of DNScaster with your other infrastructure.

APIs for listing resources, such as List Zones, may also now filter based on properties.

To learn more, see the Properties API docs.