ControlMonkey now extends Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery to leading network vendors, including Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and F5 – bringing visibility and automated recovery to routing, DNS, and edge configurations.
As cloud environments scale, disaster recovery can’t stop at data. While organizations invest heavily in data backup and ransomware protection, network configuration often remains outside formal disaster recovery strategies.
In November 2025, an internal configuration change led to a global withdrawal of routing prefixes, disrupting Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver worldwide. Applications became unreachable — even though data and workloads remained intact. The failure wasn’t infrastructure. It was network configuration.
Introducing Network Configuration Disaster Recovery
With ControlMonkey, teams can restore networking policies and routing configurations directly from versioned configuration snapshots significantly reducing manual rebuild efforts and accelerating recovery time.
Additional capabilities include:
- Automated configuration recovery: Restore routing tables, security groups, DNS records, firewall rules, and edge policies from versioned snapshots.
- Time machine for Networking configuration: easily track changes over time, restore previous configuration with a click of a button.
- Real-time drift detection:Continuously monitor cloud and network configuration changes to prevent risky modifications from escalating into outages.
- Recovery readiness visibility:Centralized insight into configuration coverage and restore capability across cloud and edge environments.
- Improved RTO/RPO confidence: Reduce downtime caused by manual network rebuilds and accelerate restoration of reachable production environments.
How It Works – Network Configuration Backup
To protect backup configurations, ControlMonkey uses a structured Cloud disaster recovery process: Discover existing configurations, Snapshot them as versioned recovery points, Recover when incidents occur, and continuously Review readiness.
1) Discover
Using read-only API access, ControlMonkey continuously discovers routing rules, DNS records, firewall policies, CDN configurations, and edge definitions across supported vendors.
2) Snapshot
Exact configuration states are captured daily and converted into versioned, deployable definitions. Each snapshot represents a deterministic recovery point.
3) Recover
When incidents occur, teams can restore specific routing tables, DNS zones, firewall rules, or full network environments – manually or automatically.
4) Review & Govern
Executives and DevOps leaders gain a single view of DR readiness across cloud, SaaS, identity, and network control planes.
With ControlMonkey, network resilience becomes measurable.
Why This Matters? Network Configuration Disaster Recovery
Most cloud disaster recovery strategies stop at data backup. But when routing policies change or DNS records are deleted:
- Teams don’t know exactly what existed
- Recovery depends on tribal knowledge
- Manual rebuilds extend RTO and RPO
- Applications remain unreachable despite healthy infrastructure
Customer Perspective
As a SaaS platform, our availability depends heavily on Cloudflare and our network configuration. Traditional backup solutions didn’t address how we would recover routing policies or edge configurations in the event of an incident. ControlMonkey gives us confidence that our Cloudflare configurations are backed up and recoverable.
Stay Ahead with Control-Plane Disaster Recovery
If you or your team back up your data, don’t leave your network configuration exposed. Your Disaster recovery plan is not complete until you can answer:
What is our RTO and RPO for network configuration?
With ControlMonkey Network Disaster Recovery you can:
- Gain measurable visibility into cloud, SaaS, identity, and network DR readiness
- Eliminate configuration blind spots across routing, DNS, and edge layers
- Reduce outage risk caused by misconfiguration and manual rebuilds
- Improve RTO and RPO confidence with deterministic, versioned recovery points
- Ensure reachability – not just data recovery during incidents
Ready to close the network recovery gap
Get a free cloud DR Assessment to review your network configuration in case of incident
