ssl shield

Continuous certificate monitoring

An SSL certificate is an essential part of website security. We check all your SSL certificate expiration dates & alert any change we detect. We give you actionable & user friendly alerts so you know what to fix.

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Taking away the complexity of SSL moitoring

Clean reporting of every certification step

The world of SSL/TLS has become very complex. We can take away that complexity for you and present you with an easy-to-use monitoring solution for your SSL certificates.

We'll monitor your website's certificate expiration dates and send you a notification when they're about to expire.

the main reasons websites go down

  • Certificates form a chain of trust. We don't only monitor your domain (leaf) certificate, but every intermediate too.
  • Other monitoring tools often only check the domain certificate.
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Your visitors will get an error message

if a certificate is revoked or outdated

If you're using old security algoritms, some browsers will block access to your site. We detect those old ciphers and will report them to you.

Error messages like this negatively affect your brand image (and ultimately, your bottom line) as they make your website feel inaccessible and unthrustworthy. Keeping track of your certificates avoids these unpleasant surprises.

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Oh Dear01:45 P.M.
urlxyz.com seems down!
Error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
Downtime verified from Paris, France and Bangalore, India
Full report: https://ohdear.app/sites/8716/history/runs/875879191
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urlxyz.com has recovered after 2m. full report: https:/ohdear.app/sites/83/checks/411

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urlxyz.com has recovered after 2m. full report: https:/ohdear.app/sites/83/checks/411

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$_TOKEN="your API token"
$ curl -X GET "https://notifyservicexyz.com/api/alert/urlxyzcom" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $_TOKEN" \
-H "Accept: application/json" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
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Oh Dear01:45 P.M.
urlxyz.com seems down!
Error: HTTP/500 Downtown veririef from Paris, France and Frankfurt
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urlxyz.com is down
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Error description Operation timed out after 5001 milliseconds with 0 bytes received
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Oh Dear01:45 P.M.
⚠️ urlxyz.comseems down!
Error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not found
Downtime verified from Paris, France and Bangalore, India
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urlxyz.com has recovered after 2m. full report: https://ohdear.app/sites/83/checks/411

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Oh Dear01:45 P.M.
urlxyz.com has recovered after 2m. Full report: https://ohdear.app/sites/87/history/runs/875879191
Paris, France - Today at 10:56
urlxyz.com seems down!
Error: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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Choose how we let you know

when our crawler finds broken links or mixed content

Receive our notifications on your preferred platform. Via email, SMS, Slack, Discord, Opsgenie, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, Pushover, webhooks,… we can notify you wherever your team is active.

Take notifications to the next level: only notify who needs notifying by assigning responsibilities to different team members.

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Not convinced yet? Need help?
Get in touch via support@ohdear.app.

Let’s get technical (if you’re into that)

You don’t need to be computer savvy to set up our tool. But if you are, we’re happy to explain exactly how it works and how you can customize Oh Dear to your specific needs.

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Certificate Chain Validation

how we crawl your site pages

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. SSL certificates are the prime example.

We don't just monitor your domain certificate but will check every intermediate certificate too, up to the root certificate, to verify the chain of trust.

We look for SHA-1 certificates, revoked or distrusted root certificates, ... each of these can cause your site to be unavailable. And none of those changes are in your control, these decisions get made by the Certificate Authorities (CAs) or the browsers themselves, coordinated via the CAB Forum.

In a chain, every certificate could cause a problem for your website. We monitor each and every one of them.

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Certificate Change Detection

a clear before/after comparison

When a certificate is changed, we'll let you know straight away. We'll show a clear before/after comparison of the certificates we found, so you can verify that this change is both intentional and correct.

A changed certificate could be a renewal, but might also be a move to a new server (with a DNS change) or a domain hijack. We'll make sure you see each change!

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Certificate Transparency Monitoring & Alerting

monitoring Certificate Logs

All issued SSL certificates need to be published to known Certificate Logs. As a result, every certificate issued becomes public knowledge.

We monitor those Certificate Transparency Logs and will alert you whenever a new certificate is issued for one of your domains. You can decide if it was on purpose by you or from a malicious actor and act accordingly.

Really into the nitty gritty details?

Want to get into the nitty gritty details of our monitoring?
Have a look at our documentation.

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