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Comment on: Stop SSL certificate outages with automated monitoring – Enterprise Ready
That’s a fair question, and in theory, yes, you could manually track internal certs based on issue date.But in practice, large or long-running environments rarely have clean cert inventories. You get:- Internal CA sprawl (and no single source of truth)Certs embedded in keystores, containers, or staging systems that nobody owns anymore- “Temporary” certs that live on for years - People leaving without handing off cert responsibilitiesWe’re not automating monitoring because it’s hard, we’re doing it because teams forget.And forgetting is what causes outages, broken mTLS, and failed compliance au