Monitoring Key Vaults in Azure
Stay in control of your sensitive assets with Nodinite. This page shows you how to actively monitor, analyze, and manage Azure Key Vaults—proactively and securely—without relying on the Azure portal.
✅ Instantly detect ageing or expiring Keys and Secrets
✅ Receive proactive alerts and manage thresholds
✅ Take remote actions to resolve issues fast
✅ Empower teams with secure, role-based access
Protect your business! Nodinite alerts you to ageing Keys and Secrets and gives you instant access to details—no Azure portal required.
Nodinite continuously monitors the age and status of Keys and Secrets in your Azure Key Vaults. You can set and adjust monitoring thresholds, receive actionable alerts, and use remote commands to resolve issues quickly. For details on available Remote Actions, see the Managing Key Vault page.
Example: List of monitored Key Vaults in a Nodinite Monitor View.
Monitoring Features
- State Evaluation – Nodinite evaluates the state of each Key Vault according to your defined policy.
If Nodinite can't check your Key Vault items' state, chances are no one else can use them either.
- Automatic Discovery – The Nodinite Azure Agent uses the Azure REST API to automatically discover Key Vaults.
- Category-based Monitoring – Group Resources by the Nodinite concept of Categories.
- Role-Based Access – Share access to individual items using one or more Monitor Views.
State Evaluation for Key Vaults
Nodinite presents each monitored Key Vault as a [Resource][]. For example, three Key Vaults appear as three separate Resources in Nodinite.
- The [Resource][] name matches the deployed Key Vault name.
- Monitored Key Vaults belong to the 'Key Vault' Category.
Many other Azure-related Categories exist—see the Azure Logging and Monitoring Overview.
- The Application name follows this pattern:
Configuration name/Resource Group Name
Each [Resource][] evaluates to a state (OK, Warning, Error, Unavailable). You can override the evaluation by configuring the Expected State for any Nodinite [Resource][].
Key Vault
For Key Vault Resources, the state evaluates as described in the table below:
| State | Status | Description | Actions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unavailable | Resource not available |
|
Review prerequisites | |
| Error | Error threshold is breached | One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| Warning | Warning threshold is breached | One or more Secrets or Keys is about to expire, or is expired | Edit | |
| OK | Within user-defined thresholds | Details |
Alert history for Key Vault
During root cause analysis or other purposes, it might be helpful to understand how often your Key Vault problems happen. If your Monitor View allows it, you can search for historical state changes for the provided time-span either for all your Key Vault or individually. This topic is further detailed within the generic instructions on how to Add or manage Monitor View page.
| Search | Resource history |
|---|---|
 Search for alert history for all resources in the Monitor View |
 Alert history for the selected Key Vault item |
Frequently asked questions
Use the troubleshooting guide to find the FAQ and answers to known problems.