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MonitoringJanuary 3, 20256 min read

SSL Certificate Monitoring Best Practices

Maintain a live inventory, enable automated renewals, and set expiry alerts to avoid outages.

SSL Monitoring

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