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Manage Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring

Bad things happen to your Certificates over time; With Nodinite; Your APIs deployed within Azure API Management Services are monitored to help you get proactive alerts for ageing certificates.

To Manage other parts of Azure API Management Service using Nodinite; Review the following user guides:

To Monitor Certificates for other systems integrations use-cases; Review the following Nodinite user guides:

Delegate the power to control all or individual Certificates to selected team members and the business. This feature helps the people involved in the support and maintenance team have the power to manage problems with your Certificates without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Reducing access limits the number of attack vectors, and having fewer people with fewer access rights minimizes the risk for disruption of mission-critical services.

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Management Features

For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege grant; The following Remote Actions grouped by Category are available:

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

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 provide one resource for each Certificate discovered from the set of configured Azure API Management Services.
    The name of the Resource is the same as in Azure.

    %Name%

    API Management Service Certificates
    Example from a Monitor View with a list of configured 'API Management Service Certificates'

    See Monitoring Azure API Management Service for additional details about Azure API Management Service Monitoring.

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

    The following Remote Actions are available for the API Management Service Category.

    1. Details
    2. Edit thresholds

    Actions
    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 on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
    Details Menu Action
    Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Certificate.

    Next, click the option to present the modal.
    Certificate details
    Here's an example of details for selected Certificate.

    Edit thresholds

    To manage the monitoring thresholds; Click the Action button and then click on the Edit menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
    Edit thresholds Action
    Edit thresholds Action button menu item.

    Next, click the option to present the modal.
    Edit thresholds Modal
    Here's an example of the 'Manage certificate monitoring thresholds' modal.

    • Description - A user-friendly optional description of the Certificate
    • Warning - Trigger the Warning alert when there is less than this number of days left before the Certificate expires
    • Error - Trigger the Error alert when there is less than this number of days left before the Certificate expires

    Click the Save button to persist changes.
    Save
    Save button.


    Next Step

    Global Configuration of the Azure Monitoring agent

    Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
    Prerequisites for Azure Agent