Manage Monitoring of Key Vault in Azure
Take charge of your Azure Key Vaults and Certificates with Nodinite. This page guides you to actively manage, monitor, and secure Key Vaults and Certificates—remotely and efficiently—without relying on the Azure portal.
✅ Remotely edit thresholds and view details for Key Vaults and Certificates
✅ Empower teams with self-service and actionable insights
✅ Receive proactive alerts for ageing Keys and Certificates
✅ Reduce risk by limiting Azure portal access
Stay ahead of issues! Nodinite alerts you to ageing Keys and Secrets and gives you instant access to details—no Azure portal required.
In Azure, you deploy Certificates to different types of services. You manage two main collections:
- Azure Key Vault in general – this guide covers it
- Certificates deployed to Azure API Management Service Certificates (see the user guide)
Nodinite also monitors other Certificates in various environments:
- Windows Certificates – Monitor Windows Server Key Vault (X.509).
- Web Service Certificates – Monitor Key Vaults used by Web Applications, Web Services, and APIs for HTTPS.
You can delegate management and gain insights into selected Key Vaults in Azure. Nodinite Monitoring gives support and maintenance teams actionable data for root cause analysis—without requiring direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. By reducing access, you minimize attack vectors and lower the risk of disrupting mission-critical services.
Diagram: Nodinite connects to Azure Key Vaults, Certificates, and related resources for monitoring and management.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Empower your AM team to proactively manage Key Vaults and Certificates without disturbing IT operations | Stay in control with full access | Give your business information and self-service for Azure Key Vault solutions |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Vault | - | Details Edit | - |
As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, the additional Monitoring options are available:
| Monitoring | Remote Configuration |
|---|---|
| Monitoring Key Vault |
|
Certificate
The 'Certificate' Category provides one Resource for each Certificate found using the configuration with the specified display name as the Resource name.
Example from a Monitor View with a list of 'Key Vaults'.
See Monitoring Key Vault for additional details about Key Vault Monitoring.
The Key Vault category provides Resources that displays the evaluated monitored state according to built-in rules.
The following Remote Actions are available for the Certificate Category:
Details
To view the selected Key Vault Resource; Click the Action button and then click on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Key Vault.
Next, click the option to present the modal.
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.
Example: Edit thresholds Action button menu item.
Next, click the option to present the modal.
Here's an example of editing monitoring thresholds for selected 'Key Vault' store.
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 button.
Next Step
Monitoring Key Vault
Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent
Related Topics
Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
Prerequisites for Azure Agent