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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 empower your team with secure, role-based access—without granting direct Azure Portal access.

✅ Instantly receive alerts for ageing certificates
✅ Empower secure, self-service management for business and support teams
✅ Monitor certificates across Azure, Windows, and Web Services
✅ Streamline compliance and reduce risk with centralized control

Use Nodinite to manage, monitor, and secure your Azure Certificates for business continuity and operational excellence.

Azure deploys Certificates to different types of services. You need to manage two main collections:

  1. Azure Certificates in general – This guide
  2. For Certificates deployed to Azure API Management Services, see the Monitoring API Certificates guide.

Nodinite also monitors Certificates for these additional use cases and environments:

Delegate management and insights for selected Certificates in Azure to your business and end-users. Nodinite Monitoring empowers support and maintenance teams with actionable data for root cause analysis—without direct Azure Portal access. This approach reduces attack vectors and minimizes risk for mission-critical services.

graph LR subgraph "Nodinite Azure Certificate Monitoring" roA[fal:fa-monitor-waveform Azure Agent] ---- roM(fal:fa-watch-fitness Monitoring) end subgraph "Azure" roSub[fal:fa-credit-card Subscription] roKV[fal:fa-unlock-alt Key Vault] roKVs(fal:fa-file-certificate Certificates) roFx[fal:fa-bolt Functions] roFxs(fal:fa-file-certificate Certificates) roWS1(fal:fa-globe Web Sites) roWS1s(fal:fa-file-certificate Certificates) roOther(fal:fa-gear ...) roOthers(fal:fa-file-certificate Certificates) roAPI[/API Management Services/] end roM --- roSub roSub --- roFx roFx -.- roFxs roSub --- roKV roKV -.- roKVs roSub --- roWS1 roWS1 -.- roWS1s roSub -.- roOther roOther -.- roOthers roSub -.- |Separate Monitoring| roAPI

Diagram: Nodinite Azure Agent monitors certificates across subscriptions, key vaults, functions, web sites, and API Management Services in Azure.

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 - Details
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As an Administrator with access to Configuration for Monitoring Agents, you can:

Monitoring Remote Configuration
Monitoring Certificate
  • Add and Remove Subscriptions
  • Enable and Disable monitoring as needed
  • Manage thresholds

Certificate

The 'Certificate' Category provides one Resource for each Certificate found using the configuration, with the specified display name as the Resource name.
Certificate
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:

Remote Actions
Example: Remote Actions menu for Certificate.

Details

To view a selected Certificate Resource, click the Action button and select Details from the 'Control Center' menu.
Details Menu Action
Open the details modal for the selected Certificate.

Click the option to present the modal.
Certificate Details

You find the current monitoring thresholds at the bottom of the modal:
Monitoring thresholds

Edit thresholds

To edit monitoring thresholds, click the Action button and select Edit from the 'Control Center' menu.

Action to Edit thresholds
Edit thresholds Action button menu item.

Click the option to present the modal.
Edit thresholds modal
Edit monitoring thresholds for the selected Certificate.

You can manage these monitoring properties:

  • Warning – Number of days before a Certificate expires to trigger a Warning alert
  • Error – Number of days before a Certificate expires to trigger an Error alert
  • Description – User-friendly description of this Certificate monitoring configuration

Click Save to persist changes.
Save
Save button.


Next Step

Monitoring Certificate
Configuring the Nodinite Azure Monitoring agent

Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview
Prerequisites for Azure Agent