Monitor every certificate your team is actually responsible for, not just the ones someone remembered to document.
AIDE tracks expiry windows, hostname mismatches, certificate chain problems and certificate changes across websites, APIs and mail endpoints so teams stop learning about broken TLS from end users.
What teams get on this page
Expiry windows across web and mail endpoints
Hostname and chain validation on every run
Context for CT, revocation and DNS-related failures
What buyers are trying to avoid
SSL monitoring needs to answer concrete operator fears, not generic certificate theory.
Unknown certificates across subdomains
Modern portfolios include shop, api, staging, vpn and mail hosts that never make it into spreadsheets but still break customer trust when certificates expire.
Renewal drift after infrastructure change
A cert can look healthy until a DNS migration, CDN switch or ACME misconfiguration silently stops auto-renewal.
No portfolio-wide prioritization
Teams need to know which certificate becomes urgent first and who should receive the alert without checking each host by hand.
What AIDE checks
AIDE treats SSL as a continuous operational signal, not a one-time status lookup.
Expiry thresholds
Warn before certificates hit dangerous windows so renewal work happens before browsers fail.
Hostname coverage
Catch CN and SAN mismatches where the certificate is valid but the host is still untrusted.
Chain validation
Detect incomplete chains and trust issues that break browsers even when the leaf certificate is still valid.
Change visibility
Surface issuer, SAN and certificate drift so teams can verify that certificate changes were intentional.
How this fits into the platform
SSL monitoring becomes much more useful when it is connected to DNS, alerting and domain risk scoring.
AIDE links certificate risk to DNS changes, subdomain discovery, CT log findings and centralized alert routing so operators can move from one certificate issue to the broader infrastructure story.
Related feature pages
Certificate Transparency monitoring
See newly issued certificates in CT logs before they surprise the team running production TLS.
CRL revocation monitoring
Connect active certificate monitoring with revocation visibility when trust is pulled by the CA.
DNS monitoring
Pair SSL drift with DNS changes that often explain why renewal or hostname coverage broke.
Start with SSL monitoring and expand into full domain infrastructure visibility.
AIDE gives teams a path from certificate monitoring to DNS, uptime, email security and portfolio-wide risk operations without changing tools later.