tlswatch – self-hosted TLS/SSL certificate expiry monitoring

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2 pointsindigodaddy4 comments

Unaffiliated. I stumbled upon this because I searched far and wide for something similar that was open source or on github, and while there is a lot out there, there's really nothing like what this does. So finally I searched GH by newly updated and found this, extremely new project. It's really excellent IMO for discovery, inventory, visibility, etc. I tried out for instance Gatus, and it really shows nothing about the cert or target host. Love how much info this shows.

Why would you want something like this? It implies that someone still is looking at certificates and rotating them by hand, which is never going to work for 47-day certificates. I think you should focus on finding an automation system (that also monitors), not just monitoring.

I'm building something that does this, CertKit.io

You're right, but imo I still love having this visibility piece and monitoring etc. I did look at your product. It looks pretty great and seems to solve ssl end to end, but I still like the visibility and probing and detailed info that tlswatch provides

Also, one could say based on your logic, WHY did you put discovery/monitoring or an inventory-like visibility into your certkit product, that isn't needed!

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