eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by AlibabaSSLCertTest

Many Alibaba cloud services rely on SSL certificates. This can include Elastic Compute Service (ECS) instances, websites, API Gateway services, Function Compute functions, anthe ted CDN endpoints.

This implies that if an SSL certificate expires, then users will no longer be able to use the cloud services that depend on that certificate until such time the certificate is renewed. To ensure high service availability, administrators should periodically check the validity of the SSL certificates of cloud services, so they can quickly identify those certificates that have expired or are nearing expiry. This is where the AlibabaSSLCertTest test helps!

At configured intervals, this test checks the validity of SSL certificates and turns attention to expired certificates. Also, by revealing how soon each issued certificate will expire, the test also alerts administrators to the potential expiry of a certificate.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for the cloud account being monitored.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Status Indicates whether/not any certificate has expired.   The values that this measure reports and their corresponding numeric values are listed below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
Yes 1
No 2

Note:

This measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate whether/not any certificate has expired. In the graph of this measure however, the same is indicated using the numeric equivalents only.

To know which certificates have expired, use the detailed diagnosis of this measure.
CertExpireInDays Indicates the number of certificates that will expire within the LICENSE EXPIRY PERIOD configured for this test. Number Use the detailed diagnosis of this measure to know which certificates are nearing expiry.
Total_cert Indicates the total number of certificates on the Alibaba cloud. Number The detailed diagnosis of this measure provides the complete details of all certificates in use.
Issued_cert Indicates the number of certificates that have been issued. Number  
Expired_cert Indicates the number of certificates that have expired. Number If this measure reports a non-zero value, then use the detailed diagnosis of the measure to identify the SSL certificates that have expired.