Notifications

Overview

RndrKit can send email notifications to keep you informed about important events related to your domains and account. Notifications help you stay on top of usage limits, SSL issues, and rendering failures without constantly checking the dashboard.

Notification Types

Usage Alerts

Receive alerts when your render usage approaches or exceeds your monthly limit:

Alert LevelTriggerDescription
Warning80% of monthly limit reachedTime to consider upgrading or optimizing cache
Critical90% of monthly limit reachedYou are close to your limit
Limit Hit100% of monthly limit reachedYou have hit your render cap for this period
Throttled120% of monthly limit reachedCache misses are proxied to origin instead of rendering

When your usage reaches 120%, RndrKit stops rendering new pages for bots. Requests for pages already in the cache are still served normally, but cache misses get proxied straight to the origin with an X-Prerender-Throttled header. This means bots will see your SPA shell instead of pre-rendered HTML until the next billing period resets your usage.

SSL Notifications

Get notified about SSL certificate status changes:

  • Certificate issued -- SSL is now active for a new domain
  • Certificate renewal -- An existing certificate was renewed successfully
  • Certificate failure -- SSL provisioning or renewal failed (action required)

Domain Status Changes

Notifications for domain configuration changes:

  • Domain activated -- A domain has been activated and is serving pre-rendered content
  • Domain deactivated -- A domain has been deactivated
  • DNS issue detected -- The domain's DNS configuration appears incorrect

Rendering Failures

Get alerted when pages fail to render:

  • Render error -- A page could not be rendered (JavaScript error, timeout, or other failure)
  • High failure rate -- Multiple pages are failing to render in a short period

Configuring Notifications

  1. Go to Settings in the dashboard sidebar.
  2. Click Notifications.
  3. Toggle each notification type on or off.
  4. Set your notification email address (defaults to your account email).
  5. Click Save.

Notification Preferences

You can customize which notifications you receive:

SettingOptionsDefault
Usage warningsOn / OffOn
SSL status changesOn / OffOn
Domain status changesOn / OffOn
Rendering failuresOn / OffOff
Weekly usage summaryOn / OffOn

Weekly Usage Summary

When enabled, you receive a weekly email summarizing:

  • Total renders across all domains
  • Cache hit rate
  • Top crawled pages
  • Any issues or warnings from the past week

This is useful for keeping an eye on your account without logging into the dashboard every day.

Email Delivery

Notifications are sent to the email address associated with your account. You can update this in your account settings.

  • Notifications are sent immediately when triggered (except for the weekly summary).
  • If multiple events of the same type occur within a short period, they may be batched into a single email to avoid inbox overload.

Responding to Notifications

Usage Warning

If you receive a usage warning:

  1. Check your Analytics to understand which domains and pages are consuming the most renders.
  2. Improve your cache hit rate by warming cache for frequently crawled pages.
  3. Consider upgrading your plan if you consistently exceed limits.

SSL Failure

If you receive an SSL failure notification:

  1. Verify your DNS configuration is correct.
  2. Check the SSL Verification guide for troubleshooting steps.
  3. Ensure Cloudflare proxy is disabled (gray cloud) if applicable.

Rendering Failure

If you receive a rendering failure notification:

  1. Check the Troubleshooting guide.
  2. Visit the page in a browser to see if it loads correctly.
  3. Check for JavaScript errors in your application.
  4. Try purging the cache for the affected page and re-rendering.

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