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DNS Filtering: Using the Visibility Report

Use the visibility report to check how a domain name will be treated

Written by Owen Parry

Updated at September 29th, 2025

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How to use the Visibility Report What You’ll See

The Visibility Report is a diagnostic tool that enables administrators to simulate how a domain will be treated—Either Allowed or Blocked—based on the active DNS filtering policies applied to a specific company, location, or roaming device. This feature is handy for troubleshooting, policy validation, and support workflows.

 

How to use the Visibility Report


 

  1. Navigate to the Visibility Report from the DNS Filtering dashboard menu.
  2. Input the domain name you want to check. You can enter it with or without prefixes like https://; the system will automatically strip these to avoid matching issues. 
  3. Choose the company whose policy context you want to evaluate. This ensures the correct policy hierarchy is applied (Company → Parent Organization → Global).
  4. Pick either a static location (e.g., office IP) or a roaming device (e.g., laptop using DoH or Agent). This determines which overrides and device-specific rules are considered. 
  5. Click “Process”

The system will compile all applicable rules, including:

  • Company-level policies and overrides
  • Location or device-specific policies and overrides
  • Global default policies

 

What You’ll See


Result: ALLOWED or BLOCKED

  • A simple verdict based on the computed policy stack.
  • Behind the scenes, the system evaluates:
    • Domain categorization
    • Override rules
    • Policy weights and priorities

Reason Summary (Coming Soon)

  • Future updates will include a breakdown of why a domain was allowed or blocked, including category match, override source, and policy name.

 

Example domain check showing ALLOWED

 

Example domain check showing BLOCKED
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