SSL Certificate Monitoring Best Practices
Maintain a live inventory, enable automated renewals, and set expiry alerts to avoid outages.
📋 In This Guide
- Understanding the basics
- Step-by-step implementation
- Best practices and tips
- Common issues and solutions
- Tools and resources
Checklist
- Central certificate inventory (domains, owners, expiry)
- Expiry alerts ≥ 30 days before
- Automated renewals (ACME) where possible
- Post-renewal validation and smoke tests
- Runbooks for emergency replacement