DNS Change Rollback

Reverse Any Applied Changeset

Open any changeset in the Applied, Verified, or Propagated state and click Rollback. ZoneWatcher inverts every item in the original: a create becomes a delete, a delete becomes a re-create using the captured before-state, and an update flips its before- and after-state. The reverse lands in your changeset list as a Draft, ready to review and apply through the normal workflow.

Revert a Single Out-of-Band Change

Sometimes a change wasn't made through ZoneWatcher — somebody edited the zone directly at the provider, or a CI job pushed a record that shouldn't have shipped. ZoneWatcher's check history captures every change it observes, and modified checks expose a Revert Change action that drafts a changeset returning the zone to its state immediately before that check ran. Targeted to the records that changed, no more.

Always Reviewed Before It Ships

Rollbacks and reverts both produce drafts — never direct writes. The same dry-run validation, AI risk scoring, approval routing, and scheduling that protect a forward changeset also protect every rollback. If records have been deleted at the provider since the original change, the dry-run surfaces the missing records before you submit so you can adjust the draft.

Inverted Diff

Every record change is automatically flipped, so the rollback's after-state is the original's before-state.

Same Approval Path

Rollback drafts inherit your team's approval rules — no surprise reverts without a deliberate human step.

Audit-Friendly

Rollback changesets are flagged in the audit trail so you can answer "what did we revert and when?" without guesswork.

Drift-Aware

Validation catches the case where a record has been deleted upstream since the original change, so you never apply a stale rollback.

Available on the Control Plan

DNS Change Rollback is included on the Control plan alongside Change Management. Start your free trial to try the full review-and-revert workflow on your own zones, or read the rollback guide for the complete behavior.