Monitoring Should Take Center Stage as Let’s Encrypt Abandons SSL Expiration Notifications

Let’s Encrypt will stop sending SSL/TLS expiration emails effective June 4 — now’s the time to ensure you have SSL monitoring and alerts set up

Let’s Encrypt (LE) announced earlier this year that it would discontinue SSL/TLS expiration notification emails on Wednesday, June 4. That’s just two days from now, so now’s the time to be sure that you have the systems in place to help keep your certificate management on track once it’s “go time.”

Even if you’re using automation to keep your certificate renewed and updated (that’s good!), you’re not 100% home free. The unfortunate reality is that certificate renewal cron jobs/automated tasks can and do fail (online forums are rife with examples), leaving sites down due to an expired SSL/TLS certificate. Fortunately, there are some simple solutions.

So, what does all of this mean for Let’s Encrypt users, and what options are there for monitoring your SSL/TLS security?

Let’s hash it out.

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