Question 1

What does CertSentry monitor?

Accepted Answer

CertSentry watches the failures that take sites down quietly — the ones you don't notice until a customer does. Instead of stitching together a cert checker, an uptime tool and a DNS watcher, you get all of it against one target, in one place. Everything it watches Check What it watches How often Pl…

Question 2

How do I add my first monitor?

Accepted Answer

A monitor is one target (a hostname or URL) plus the checks you want to run against it. Setting one up takes under a minute. Step by step From your dashboard, choose New monitor. Enter the target: a hostname like example.com for SSL, domain and DNS checks, or a full URL like https://example.com/heal…

Question 3

Do I need to own or verify the domain I'm monitoring?

Accepted Answer

No. CertSentry checks what's publicly reachable, so you can monitor any domain or endpoint that resolves on the public internet — no DNS record to add, no file to upload, no agent to install. This is exactly how agencies and MSPs use it: monitor a whole book of client domains for SSL and uptime with…

Getting started

Getting started