Certificate Audit Log

Track all certificate changes and operations

Recent Activity

Loading audit log...

About Certificate Audit Logging

Certificate audit logging provides a chronological record of all operations performed on TLS certificates within your infrastructure. This includes certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, key generation, and configuration changes. Audit logs are essential for security incident investigation, compliance reporting, and operational monitoring. Our Certificate Audit Log tool centralizes and displays these events, giving security teams full visibility into certificate lifecycle activities.

How to Use

Navigate to the Certificate Audit Log page to view recent certificate activity.
Browse the chronological list of events including certificate operations and their outcomes.
Filter entries by severity (Info, Warning, Error) to focus on important events.
Click on individual entries for detailed information about each operation.

Use Cases

Incident Investigation: Trace the sequence of certificate operations leading up to a security incident.
Compliance Auditing: Provide auditors with a complete history of certificate management activities.
Operational Monitoring: Track certificate renewals, expirations, and configuration changes across your infrastructure.
Change Management: Review and verify all certificate-related changes made by team members.

Frequently Asked Questions

The audit log records events such as certificate issuance, renewal, revocation, key generation, import/export operations, configuration changes, and failed validation attempts. Each entry includes a timestamp, action type, domain, and severity level.

Audit log retention periods vary by deployment. Typically, logs are retained for a minimum of 12 months for compliance purposes, with some organizations keeping them for 3-7 years depending on regulatory requirements.

The audit log data is available through the web interface. For programmatic access and export capabilities, the underlying API can be integrated with your SIEM or log management system for centralized logging and analysis.

Tips & Best Practices

•Enable audit logging for all SSL-related activities from day one
•Regularly review audit logs to identify unusual patterns or unauthorized changes
•Export and archive audit logs for long-term compliance retention
•Include audit log access in your incident response procedures

Technical Details

Events: Certificate deployments, renewals, revocations, config changes, scans
Details: Timestamps, user attribution, IP addresses, change details
Retention: Configurable log retention with automatic archival
Export: CSV, JSON, and PDF export formats