Supported provider
Cloudflare DNS, in the same place as everything else.
Does DNSMentor support Cloudflare?
Yes. DNSMentor manages Cloudflare DNS through its API, showing its zones alongside the other 25 supported providers in a single estate view. Every Cloudflare change goes through the same 56 pre-flight checks, approval policy, independent verification and tamper-evident audit trail as every other provider.
Connecting Cloudflare
- Create the credential in Cloudflare Cloudflare dashboard → My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token, then use the 'Edit zone DNS' template and include only the zones this connection should manage. Do not use the Global API Key: it grants full control of the entire Cloudflare account and cannot be restricted to DNS or to particular zones.
- Add the connection in DNSMentor Go to Admin → Providers & API keys, choose Cloudflare, and paste the credential. DNSMentor stores it encrypted and strips it from every log and export.
- Sync the estate DNSMentor discovers every zone the Cloudflare account holds and imports every record in them. This is a read operation — nothing is written to any zone.
- Group by client and start working Assign the imported domains to client portfolios, and the estate view, health scoring, checks and audit trail apply from that point on.
What Cloudflare asks you for
The exact fields DNSMentor needs, and where in Cloudflare to create them. Every secret is encrypted at rest and stripped by name from logs, exports and the audit trail.
API Token secret Cloudflare dashboard → My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token, then use the 'Edit zone DNS' template and include only the zones this connection should manage. Do not use the Global API Key: it grants full control of the entire Cloudflare account and cannot be restricted to DNS or to particular zones.
What you get on top of the Cloudflare console
One estate, not one provider
Cloudflare zones sit beside every other provider your clients came with, grouped by the client who pays for them and searchable in one place.
56 checks before apply
The Cloudflare console will accept a second SPF record or an MX pointing at an address without comment. DNSMentor will not.
Approval and audit
A second pair of eyes where policy requires it, and a hash-chained record of who changed what — neither of which a provider console offers.
Cloudflare questions
Can I manage Cloudflare DNS alongside my other providers?
Yes. DNSMentor connects Cloudflare through its API and shows its zones in the same estate view as every other provider you connect — 26 are supported in total. Your engineers work in one interface instead of switching between provider portals, and the same checks, approval policy and audit trail apply regardless of which provider a domain happens to be with.
What credentials does DNSMentor need for Cloudflare?
DNSMentor needs API Token for Cloudflare. Cloudflare dashboard → My Profile → API Tokens → Create Token, then use the 'Edit zone DNS' template and include only the zones this connection should manage. Do not use the Global API Key: it grants full control of the entire Cloudflare account and cannot be restricted to DNS or to particular zones.
Does DNSMentor move my zones away from Cloudflare?
No. Your zones stay hosted at Cloudflare and remain authoritative there. DNSMentor reads and writes through the Cloudflare API, so nothing about your resolution path changes, and if you stop using DNSMentor the zones carry on exactly as they are.
Does DNSMentor validate Cloudflare changes before applying them?
Yes. All 56 checks run against the zone as it would exist after the change, whichever provider hosts it. The change is then simulated, routed for approval if policy requires it, written through the Cloudflare API after re-reading live state, and independently verified in public DNS afterwards.
Other providers DNSMentor manages
Connect Cloudflare in about five minutes.
Paste one credential, sync, and see every zone in that account. It is a read operation — nothing is written until somebody presses apply.
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