X.509 certificate

Plugin: go.d.plugin Module: x509check

Overview

This collectors monitors x509 certificates expiration time and revocation status.

This collector is supported on all platforms.

This collector supports collecting metrics from multiple instances of this integration, including remote instances.

Default Behavior

Auto-Detection

This integration doesn’t support auto-detection.

Limits

The default configuration for this integration does not impose any limits on data collection.

Performance Impact

The default configuration for this integration is not expected to impose a significant performance impact on the system.

Setup

Prerequisites

No action required.

Configuration

File

The configuration file name for this integration is go.d/x509check.conf.

You can edit the configuration file using the edit-config script from the Netdata config directory.

cd /etc/netdata 2>/dev/null || cd /opt/netdata/etc/netdata
sudo ./edit-config go.d/x509check.conf

Options

The following options can be defined globally: update_every, autodetection_retry.

Name	Description	Default	Required
update_every	Data collection frequency.	1	False
autodetection_retry	Recheck interval in seconds. Zero means no recheck will be scheduled.	0	False
source	Certificate source. Allowed schemes: https, tcp, tcp4, tcp6, udp, udp4, udp6, file.		False
days_until_expiration_warning	Number of days before the alarm status is warning.	30	False
days_until_expiration_critical	Number of days before the alarm status is critical.	15	False
check_revocation_status	Whether to check the revocation status of the certificate.	False	False
timeout	SSL connection timeout.	2	False
tls_skip_verify	Server certificate chain and hostname validation policy. Controls whether the client performs this check.	False	False
tls_ca	Certification authority that the client uses when verifying the server’s certificates.		False
tls_cert	Client TLS certificate.		False
tls_key	Client TLS key.		False

Examples

Website certificate

Website certificate.

jobs:
  - name: my_site_cert
    source: https://my_site.org:443

Local file certificate

Local file certificate.

jobs:
  - name: my_file_cert
    source: file:///home/me/cert.pem

SMTP certificate

SMTP certificate.

jobs:
  - name: my_smtp_cert
    source: smtp://smtp.my_mail.org:587

Multi-instance

Note: When you define more than one job, their names must be unique.

Check the expiration status of the multiple websites' certificates.

jobs:
  - name: my_site_cert1
    source: https://my_site1.org:443

  - name: my_site_cert2
    source: https://my_site1.org:443

  - name: my_site_cert3
    source: https://my_site3.org:443

Metrics

Metrics grouped by scope.

The scope defines the instance that the metric belongs to. An instance is uniquely identified by a set of labels.

Per source

These metrics refer to the configured source.

Labels:

Label	Description
source	Configured source.

Metrics:

Metric	Dimensions	Unit
x509check.time_until_expiration	expiry	seconds
x509check.revocation_status	revoked	boolean

Alerts

The following alerts are available:

Alert name	On metric	Description
x509check_days_until_expiration	x509check.time_until_expiration	time until x509 certificate expires
x509check_revocation_status	x509check.revocation_status	x509 certificate revocation status (0: revoked, 1: valid)

Troubleshooting

Debug Mode

To troubleshoot issues with the x509check collector, run the go.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output should give you clues as to why the collector isn’t working.

Navigate to the plugins.d directory, usually at /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that’s not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the plugins setting under [directories].
```
cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
```
Switch to the netdata user.
```
sudo -u netdata -s
```
Run the go.d.plugin to debug the collector:
```
./go.d.plugin -d -m x509check
```

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