Quickstart: SSL Certificate Monitoring in Heii On-Call

A quickstart guide on how to set up SSL certificate monitoring in Heii On-Call.

Author
Mike Robbins

It's easy to configure Heii On-Call to continuously monitor and notify your team about any soon-to-expire SSL certificates, so you have plenty of time to take action before there's a customer-visible outage. Below are steps to get started quickly.

For more information about why it's important to monitor SSL certificates and how to design an SSL certificate monitoring plan, see our more comprehensive guide on SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring.

Step 1:

Within Heii On-Call, go to a Service page, or click "New Service" and call it "SSL Certificates" to group these monitors together. Assign this Service to whichever on-call Rotation you'd like to get alerts.

New Service button in Heii On-Call

New Service form in Heii On-Call

Step 2:

Click "New Trigger".

New Trigger button  in Heii On-Call

Step 3:

Click "Outbound Probe" as the type of trigger.

Choose Outbound Probe trigger type in Heii On-Call

Step 4:

Click "It can wait until Monday" to request non-critical alerts.

Choose non-critical alert template in Heii On-Call

Step 5:

In the "Name" field, enter a friendly name like: "example.com SSL cert expiry 14+ days".

Step 6:

In the "Timeout" field, enter: "1 hour" so that temporary outages don't cause false alarms.

Step 7:

In the "URL" field, enter a health check endpoint URL, such as: "https://example.com/healthz". Double-check to be sure it's an https URL.

Name, Timeout, and URL fields filled in Heii On-Call

Step 8:

In the "SSL Certificate Minimum Expiration Duration" field, enter: "14 days" so this trigger will be considered down when the certificate will expire in under 14 days.

SSL Certificate Minimum Expiration Duration filled in Heii On-Call

Step 9:

Click "Create Trigger".

Create Trigger button in Heii On-Call

Step 10:

Repeat steps 2-9 for all other combinations you'd like to monitor, such as a critical alert at "2 days", or other subdomains like www.example.com.

SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring in Heii On-Call

That's it!

You can set up triggers with "SSL Certificate Minimum Expiration Duration" on Heii On-Call's free plan in just a few minutes. Sleep easier knowing you'll be alerted well in advance of an easily avoidable customer-facing outage.

For more details, see our guide on SSL Certificate Expiration Monitoring.