Configuring SSL Monitoring

SSL certificates are crucial for the security and trust of your website. An expired certificate can scare away visitors and hurt your search engine rankings. Uptimeify provides comprehensive SSL monitoring to prevent this.

How it works

When you add a monitor with an https:// URL, Uptimeify automatically enables SSL monitoring. We perform a handshake with your server and inspect the certificate chain.

What we check:

• Expiration Date: Is the certificate valid and not expired?
• Host Match: Does the certificate match the domain name?
• Chain Validity: Is the certificate chain complete and trusted?

Alerting Thresholds

You can configure how many days before expiration you want to be alerted.

• Warning Threshold (Days): default 30
• Critical Threshold (Days): default 3

When the certificate expiry falls within the configured window, Uptimeify creates an incident (warning or critical) and sends notifications according to your notification rules.

Troubleshooting SSL Errors

If you receive an SSL alert, check the following:

1. Did you renew the certificate? Sometimes you need to restart your web server (Nginx/Apache) to load the new file.
2. Is the intermediate certificate installed? Some browsers work without it, but our strict checker requires a full chain.
3. Is the clock correct? Ensure your server's system time is synchronized.