Manage Azure API Management Service Certificates monitoring
Bad things happen to your Certificates over time; With Nodinite; Your APIs deployed within Azure API Management Services are monitored to help you get pro-active alerts for ageing certificates.
To Manage other parts of Azure API Management Service using Nodinite; Review the following user guides:
To Monitor Certificates for other systems integrations use-cases; Review the following Nodinite user guides:
- Monitor Certificates in Azure
- Monitor HTTPS Certificates used by Web Services
- Monitor Certificates in Windows Server / BizTalk Server
- [Monitor Certificates in Boomi / AtomSphere]
Delegate the power to control all or individual Certificates to selected team members and the business. This feature helps the people involved in the support and maintenance team have the power to manage problems with your Certificates without having individual direct access to the Microsoft Azure Portal. Reducing access limits the number of attack vectors and having fewer people with fewer access rights minimizes the risk for disruption of mission-critical services.
| Application Management Team | IT Operations | Business |
|---|---|---|
| Let your AM team have the power to detect application-related problems without involving the IT operations team | Stay in complete control with access to everything | Give your business Data and self-service for solutions built using Azure API Management Service |
Management Features
For Resources in the Role-based Monitor Views with the Remote Actions privilege grant; The following Remote Actions grouped by Category are available:
| Category | Monitoring | Actions | Metrics/Statistics |
|---|---|---|---|
| API Management Service - Certificate | Edit thresholds Details |
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As an Administrator with access to the Configuration for Monitoring Agents, the additional monitoring options are available:
| Monitoring | Remote Configuration |
|---|---|
| Monitoring Azure API Management Service Certificate |
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Certificate
The 'API Management Service - Certificate' Category provide one resource for each Certificate discovered from the set of configured Azure API Management Services.
The name of the Resource is the same as in Azure.
>%Name%
Example from a Monitor View with a list of configured 'API Management Service Certificates'
See Monitoring Azure API Management Service for additional details about Azure API Management Service Monitoring.
The API Management Service - Certificate category provides Resources that display the evaluated monitored state according to user-defined thresholds.
The following Remote Actions are available for the API Management Service Category.
Example with a list of Remote Actions as seen from the dropdown menu of the Actions button.
Details
To view the selected Certificate; Click the Action button and then click on the Details menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
Use the 'Details' action menu item to open the details modal for the selected Certificate.
Next, click the option to present the modal.
Example of details for selected Certificate.
Edit thresholds
To manage the monitoring thresholds; Click the Action button and then click on the Edit menu item within the 'Control Center' section.
Edit thresholds Action button menu item.
Next, click the option to present the modal.
Example of the 'Manage certificate monitoring thresholds' modal.
- Description - A user-friendly optional description of the Certificate
- Warning - Trigger the Warning alert when there is less than this number of days left before the Certificate expires
- Error - Trigger the Error alert when there is less than this number of days left before the Certificate expires
Click the Save button to persist changes.
Save button.
Next Step
Global Configuration of the Azure Monitoring agent