Manage Monitoring of Certificates in Azure
Take control of your Azure Certificates with Nodinite. This guide shows you how to manage monitoring, perform Remote Actions, and give your team secure, role-based access, without granting direct Azure Portal access.
- ✅ Receive alerts for ageing certificates before certificate expiry hits your business
- ✅ Give business and support teams secure, self-service management
- ✅ Monitor certificates across Azure, Windows, and Web Services
- ✅ Streamline compliance and reduce risk with centralized control
Animated walkthrough: open Details for a Certificate (Subject, Issuer, issued and expiration date, and the Evaluation thresholds card), then Edit with its Allowed Limit and the note that the limits apply to every certificate in the Subscription.
Use Nodinite to manage, monitor, and secure your Azure Certificates for business continuity and operational excellence.
Start with Monitoring Azure Certificates if you want the monitored certificate scope and threshold rules before you use the Details and Edit actions below.
Azure deploys Certificates to different types of services. You manage two main collections:
- Azure Certificates in general – this guide.
- Certificates deployed to Azure API Management Services – see the Monitoring API Certificates guide and the Managing API Certificates guide.
Nodinite also monitors Certificates for these additional use cases and environments:
- Windows Certificates – Monitor Windows Server Certificates (X.509).
- Web Service Certificates – Monitor certificates used by Web Applications, Web Services, and APIs for HTTPS.
- Key Vault – Monitor Keys, Secrets, and Certificates stored in Azure Key Vaults.
Delegate management and insights for selected Certificates in Azure to your business and end-users. Nodinite Monitoring gives support and maintenance teams actionable data for root cause analysis, without direct Azure Portal access. This approach reduces attack vectors and minimizes risk for mission-critical services.
Diagram: The Nodinite Azure Agent monitors certificates across subscriptions, key vaults, functions, web sites, and other services; API Management Services certificates have separate monitoring.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Empower your AM team to be proactive without disturbing IT operations | Maintain full control with complete access | Enable business users with information and self-service for Azure certificate solutions |
Management Features
For Resources in Role-based Monitor Views with Remote Actions privileges, Nodinite provides these remote actions grouped by Category:
| Category | Monitoring | Actions | Metrics/Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| Certificate | ✅ Monitoring | Details Edit |
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As an Administrator with access to the Configuration of Monitoring Agents, you can:
| Monitoring | Remote Configuration |
|---|---|
| Monitoring Certificate |
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Certificate
The 'Certificate' Category provides one Resource for each Certificate found using the configuration, with the specified display name as the Resource name.
Example: Monitor View listing Azure Certificates.
See Monitoring Certificate for more details about monitoring.
The Certificate category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to built-in rules.
Nodinite enables these Remote Actions for the Certificate Category:
Example: the Action menu of a Certificate; the Remote Actions are under Control Center.
Details
To view a selected Certificate Resource, click the Action button and select Details from the Control Center part of the menu.
Open the details modal for the selected Certificate.
Click the option to present the modal.
The modal shows TenantId, Subscription, Subscription ID, Resource group, Location, Subject Name, Issuer, Issued date, Expiration date, the Azure resource labels, and the Host names the certificate is bound to.
Example: Details modal for the selected Azure Certificate.
The Evaluation thresholds card at the bottom of the modal shows the limits that apply:
The Warning and Error thresholds that currently apply to this Certificate.
Edit thresholds
To edit monitoring thresholds, click the Action button and select Edit from the Control Center part of the menu.
Edit thresholds Action button menu item.
Click the option to present the modal.
Edit monitoring thresholds for the selected Certificate.
You can manage these monitoring properties under Allowed Limit, in whole days:
- ⚠️ Warning – a certificate that expires within this many days is Warning (default 14)
- ❌ Error – a certificate that expires within this many days is Error (default 7)
- Description – User-friendly description of this Certificate monitoring configuration
The limits are global for the Subscription: the dialog notes that "A change affects the Monitoring for all certificates in this Subscription". Set the Error limit lower than the Warning limit.
Click Save to persist changes.
Save button.
Warning and Error states reach your team through Alarm Plugins. To override the evaluated state of a single Certificate, use the Expected State option of the Resource.
Next Steps
- Monitoring Certificate
- Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent
- Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview