Monitoring Certificates in Azure
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This page provides documentation about Certificate Monitoring options using Nodinite from one or more role-based Monitor Views. Nodinite monitors the age of Certificates. You can manage the monitoring thresholds for the Certificate; Remote commands are available as Actions to help you swiftly address reported problems. The Remote Actions are detailed on the Managing Certificate page.
Example list of monitored Certificates in a Nodinite Monitor View
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation - Provide state evaluation according to pre-defined policy.
If Nodinite can't check your Certificate items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.
- Automatic Discovery of Certificates.
- The Nodinite Azure Agent makes use of the Azure Rest API. Hence, Certificates presents automatically.
- Category-based monitoring - The monitored Resources groups by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
- Share access to individual items from within Nodinite using one or more role-based Monitor Views.
State evaluation for Certificates
The Certificates to monitor manifests within Nodinite as one or more Resources. For example, if you have three Certificates, you will have three Resources in Nodinite.
- The Nodinite Resources name is the same as the deployed Certificate name.
- Monitored Certificates belong to 'Certificate' Category:
Many other Azure related Categories exists as well, please review the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
- The Application name is created with the following pattern:
Configuration name/Resource Group Name
Each item (presented in Nodinite as a Resource) evaluates with a state (i.e. OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable).
You can override the evaluation process by configuring the Expected State option available for all Nodinite Resources.
Certificate
For Certificate Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:
| State | Status | Description | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unavailable | Resource not available |
|
Review prerequisites | |
| Error | Error threshold is breached | Certificate is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| Warning | Warning threshold is breached | Certificate is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| OK | Within user-defined thresholds | Details |
Alert history for Certificate
During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your Certificate problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Certificate or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected Certificate item |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.