Why I like monitoring SSL certificates
When your SSL certificate expires, things break.
Browsers throw up scary warnings. APIs stop talking to each other. Your users bounce. And unless you’re actively tracking expiration dates, it’s easy to miss.
Certificate Monitoring is a new Vigilant feature that makes sure that never happens.
Most of us have seen it, the big warning in your browser when you visit a website with an expired certificate. With automated certificate renewals, it's easy to assume that the renewal always works. But when it fails you want to know as quickly as possible.
Monitoring certificates is a good idea as you can prevent unexpected expiration by simply checking the certificate regularly.
This is why I've added certificate monitoring to Vigilant. Get notified when a certificate is about to expire and when it expires. Vigilant can even notify you when it renews so that you'll know that your automatic renewals work.
You can use it to monitor production domains, staging environments, internal tools. Anything, Vigilant just needs to be able to connect to it. As with every feature in Vigilant, you can add separate monitors or attach them to a website. Attaching a monitor to a website will allow Vigilant to quickly summarize the health of your website.
Vigilant comes with a powerful notification system that allows you to create conditions. This way you can send a notification exactly when and where you need it.
This is one of those features you hope to never hear from, until the day it saves you.
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