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Manage Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring

Take full control of your Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring with Nodinite. Manage, configure, and troubleshoot all certificate monitoring options efficiently, without direct Azure Portal access. You and your teams perform Remote Actions, speed up root cause analysis, and securely delegate management with role-based self-service.

  • ✅ Perform Remote Actions and manage monitoring for all certificate resources
  • ✅ Set your own Warning and Error thresholds for certificate expiration
  • ✅ Give business and IT users secure, role-based self-service
  • ✅ Reduce risk by limiting direct Azure Portal access
  • ✅ Speed up root cause analysis with actionable insights

Expect certificates to change over time. With Nodinite, you monitor the certificates deployed within your Azure API Management Services and receive proactive alerts through Alarm Plugins for aging certificates.

Start with Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificates for how Nodinite evaluates certificate state, and with Monitoring Azure API Management Service for the service-level context, before you edit certificate thresholds or review certificate details below.

You manage other parts of Azure API Management Service with Nodinite. Review the following user guides:

You monitor certificates for other integration use cases with these Nodinite user guides:

Delegate the power to control all or individual Certificates to selected team members and the business. This feature lets support and maintenance teams manage problems with your Certificates without granting individual Users direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. By reducing access, you limit attack vectors and minimize the risk of disruption to mission-critical services.

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Management Features

For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege, these Remote Actions are available, grouped by Category:

Category Monitoring Actions Metrics/Statistics
API Management Service - Certificate ✅ Yes Edit thresholds
Details
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As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, you have these additional monitoring options:

Monitoring Remote Configuration
Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificate
  • Add and Remove Azure API Management Service connections
  • Enable and Disable Monitoring as specified
  • Edit monitoring thresholds

Certificate

The 'API Management Service - Certificate' Category provides one resource for each Certificate discovered in the configured Azure API Management Services. The name of the Resource is the same as in Azure:

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Monitor View listing Azure API Management Service Certificates as Resources
Example from a Monitor View with a list of configured 'API Management Service Certificates'.

See Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificates for details about how Nodinite evaluates the certificate state.

The API Management Service - Certificate category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to user-defined thresholds.

These Remote Actions are available for the API Management Service - Certificate Category:

  1. Details
  2. Edit thresholds

Actions menu with Remote Actions for a Certificate
Example with a list of Remote Actions as seen from the dropdown menu of the Actions button.

Details

To view the selected Certificate, click the Action button and then click the Details menu item in the 'Control Center' section.

Details menu item in the Actions menu for a Certificate
Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Certificate.

Next, click the option to open the modal.

Certificate details modal
Example of details for the selected Certificate.

Edit thresholds

To manage the monitoring thresholds, click the Action button and then click the Edit menu item in the 'Control Center' section.

Edit thresholds menu item in the Actions menu
Edit thresholds Action button menu item.

Next, click the option to open the modal.

Manage certificate monitoring thresholds modal
Example of the 'Manage certificate monitoring thresholds' modal.

  • Description - A user-friendly optional description of the Certificate
  • ⚠️ Warning - Trigger the Warning alert when fewer than this number of days remain before the Certificate expires
  • ❌ Error - Trigger the Error alert when fewer than this number of days remain before the Certificate expires

Click the Save button to persist changes.

Save button in the thresholds modal
Save button.

Next Steps