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Manage Monitoring of Certificates in Azure

Don't let your business down! Get alerts for ageing Certificates and gain access to details without the Azure portal.

In Azure, Certificates deploys to different types of services. There are two types of collections you need to deal with:

  1. Azure Certificates in general - This guide
  2. For the Certificates deployed to Azure API Management Services, review the Monitoring API Certificates user guide.

In addition, Nodinite also has monitoring of Certificates for these other use cases and environments:

For your business and other end-users; Delegate the power to manage, and gain insights to selected Certificates in Azure. Nodinite Monitoring aids the support and maintenance team's people in having additional data for root cause analysis 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
Certificate - 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 Certificate
  • Add and Remove Subscriptions
  • Enable and Disable the monitoring as specified
  • Manage thresholds

    Certificate

    The 'Certificate' Category provides one Resource for each Certificate found using the configuration with the specified display name as the Resource name.
    Certificate
    Example from a Monitor View with a list of 'Certificates'.

    See Monitoring Certificate for additional details about Certificate Monitoring.

    The Certificate category provides Resources that displays the evaluated monitored state according to built-in rules.

    The following Remote Actions are available for the Certificate Category:

    Remote Actions

    Details

    To view the selected Certificate Resource; 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

    You find the current Monitoring thresholds at the bottom of the modal:
    Monitoring thresholds

    Edit thresholds

    You can Edit the monitoring thresholds, click on the Action button and then click on the Edit menu item within the 'Control Center' section.

    Action to Edit thresholds
    Example: Edit thresholds Action button menu item.

    Next, click the option to present the modal.
    Edit thresholds modal
    Here's an example of editing monitoring thresholds for selected 'Certificate'.

    You can manage the following monitoring properties:

    • Warning - Number of days before Certificate expires to trigger the Warning alert
    • Error- Number of days before Certificate expires to trigger the Error alert
    • Description - The user-friendly description of this specific Certificate monitoring configuration

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


    Next Step

    Monitoring Certificate
    Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent

    Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
    Prerequisites for Azure Agent