A website is only as available as its domain. The Foundation CMS health checks read the domain estate from Apiary, Swarm Labs' control plane for domains, hosting and email, so a site's health panel warns about an expiring domain or certificate before visitors find out.
Overview
This integration connects Foundation CMS with Apiary. Foundation CMS is Swarm Labs' multi-tenant content management system on Cloudflare Workers. It holds a site's content and hands it to the site as whole, typed records, and every site runs as its own Worker with its own database and media bucket. Apiary pulls every domain a business runs, across registrars, DNS, hosting and mail providers, into one dashboard with health, expiry and records at a glance.
Business Context and Core Use Case
A site can be perfectly healthy and still unreachable because its domain lapsed or its certificate expired. Those facts live with registrars and DNS providers, not in the CMS. Rather than rebuild that knowledge, Foundation CMS reads it from Apiary, which already tracks the estate.
The Applications Involved
Apiary (Apiary) knows each domain's registrar, DNS, expiry and records.
Foundation CMS (Foundation CMS) shows domain and certificate expiry in each site's health panel and the platform's system health, banded by urgency.
How the Integration Works
Foundation CMS reads the domain estate from Apiary and grades each site's domain and certificate expiry by how soon it falls. The same results appear on the client's site health panel and on the platform's system health screen, through the same grading, so they cannot disagree. A result too old to stand behind turns to unknown rather than staying green, and alerts wait out brief blips before they fire.
Immediate Operational Value
Expiring domains are flagged where the people responsible for the site already look, with enough warning to act. Clients' DNS changes, such as pointing a domain at a new site, are made through Apiary's audited endpoints.
Security, Access, and Governance
Health shows green only when a check has proved it; an old reassurance is treated as unknown, while an old alarm stays an alarm. Apiary brokers provider access behind its own scoped, audited keys, so Foundation CMS never holds registrar credentials.
Summary
Apiary knows the domains; Foundation CMS shows what that means for each site, early enough to do something about it.
Frequently asked questions
What does Apiary add to Foundation CMS?
Knowledge of each site's domain: registrar, DNS, expiry and records, which Foundation CMS uses for its health checks.
Will a stale check show as healthy?
No. A result too old to stand behind turns to unknown rather than staying green.
Does Foundation CMS hold registrar logins?
No. Apiary brokers provider access behind its own scoped, audited keys.
