Certificate Monitoring

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. Monitoring certificates is a good idea as you can prevent unexpected expiration by simply checking the certificate regularly.

Vigilant's certificate monitor will keep track of your certificates and notify you when:

• Certificate is about to expire

• Certificate expired

• Certificate renews / changes

Vigilant keeps track of previous certificates to give you an indication of how often they change.

Setting up a certificate monitor

There are two ways of setting up certificate monitoring in Vigilant. You can enable uptime monitoring for a site by selecting your site and enabling it under the Certificate tab. This will create a certificate monitor that is linked to your site.

It is also possible to create individual monitors which are not linked to a site by using the Add button on the Certificates page.

Settings

There are two settings for a certificate monitor, the domain and port. The port is usually 443 for websites but Vigilant lets you change it so that it is possible to monitor certificates of other services you might run.