Manage Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring
Take full control of your Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring with Nodinite. Manage, configure, and troubleshoot all certificate monitoring options efficiently, without direct Azure Portal access. You and your teams perform Remote Actions, speed up root cause analysis, and securely delegate management with role-based self-service.
- ✅ Perform Remote Actions and manage monitoring for all certificate resources
- ✅ Set your own Warning and Error thresholds for certificate expiration
- ✅ Give business and IT users secure, role-based self-service
- ✅ Reduce risk by limiting direct Azure Portal access
- ✅ Speed up root cause analysis with actionable insights
Expect certificates to change over time. With Nodinite, you monitor the certificates deployed within your Azure API Management Services and receive proactive alerts through Alarm Plugins for aging certificates.
Start with Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificates for how Nodinite evaluates certificate state, and with Monitoring Azure API Management Service for the service-level context, before you edit certificate thresholds or review certificate details below.
You manage other parts of Azure API Management Service with Nodinite. Review the following user guides:
- Manage API Management Service
- Manage API
- Manage Event Hub Logger
- Manage Private Endpoint
- All Azure API Management Service features
You monitor certificates for other integration use cases with these Nodinite user guides:
- Monitor Certificates in Azure (see also the Azure Monitoring Agent and Key Vault monitoring)
- Monitor HTTPS Certificates used by Web Services
- Monitor Certificates in Windows Server/BizTalk Server
- Monitor Certificates in Boomi / AtomSphere
Delegate the power to control all or individual Certificates to selected team members and the business. This feature lets support and maintenance teams manage problems with your Certificates without granting individual Users direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. By reducing access, you limit attack vectors and minimize the risk of disruption to mission-critical services.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Let your AM team have the power to detect application-related problems without involving the IT operations team | Stay in complete control with access to everything | Give your business Data and self-service for solutions built using Azure API Management Service |
Management Features
For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege, these Remote Actions are available, grouped by Category:
| Category | Monitoring | Actions | Metrics/Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Management Service - Certificate | ✅ Yes | Edit Details |
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As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, you have these additional monitoring options:
| Monitoring | Remote Configuration |
|---|---|
| Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificate |
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Certificate
The 'API Management Service - Certificate' Category provides one resource for each Certificate discovered in the configured Azure API Management Services. The name of the Resource is the same as in Azure:
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Example from a Monitor View with a list of configured 'API Management Service Certificates'.
See Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificates for details about how Nodinite evaluates the certificate state.
The API Management Service - Certificate category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to user-defined thresholds.
These Remote Actions are available for the API Management Service - Certificate Category:
Example with a list of Remote Actions as seen from the dropdown menu of the Actions button.
Details
To view the selected Certificate, click the Action button and then click the Details menu item in the 'Control Center' section.
Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Certificate.
Next, click the option to open the modal.
Example of details for the selected Certificate, with its Expiration date.
Edit thresholds
To manage the monitoring thresholds, click the Action button and then click the Edit menu item in the 'Control Center' section.
The Edit menu item opens the Edit thresholds modal.
Next, click the option to open the modal.
Example of the Edit thresholds modal.
The Allowed Limit section holds the two limits, as whole days (0–365):
- ⚠️ Warning - Trigger the Warning alert when fewer than this number of days remain before the Certificate expires
- ❌ Error - Trigger the Error alert when fewer than this number of days remain before the Certificate expires
- Description - A user-friendly optional description
Important
The limits are global settings, as the modal's NOTE says: a change affects the Monitoring of all certificates in this Subscription, in every API Management Service, not only the certificate you opened the modal from.
- A new Subscription configuration starts with Warning 14 and Error 7 days.
- Keep the Error limit smaller than the Warning limit. With a larger Error limit, a certificate goes to Error before it ever reaches Warning; the modal doesn't check the order.
Click the Save button to persist changes. After Save, the next sync evaluates every certificate in the Subscription against the new limits.
Save button.
Animated walkthrough: an expired certificate in Error ("Certificate has expired"), its Details, and Edit with the Edit thresholds modal. The walkthrough closes the modal without Save, because Save changes the limits for the whole Subscription.