Certificate changelog analysis

Cloud Cultivator has a unique feature which tracks changes of your SSL certificate over time. Think git for certs.

Whether a new certificate has been issued, a new common name assigned to the certificate, or any number of other changes have happened to your certificate, Cloud Cultivator monitors the attributes of your certificate for changes and reports them to you. This is a robust way to track changes over time to your site’s certificate. This is a robust way for you to have an unbroken chain of event logs on your certificate. For example, here is a sample of the changelog, with full verbosity, so much so that we couldn’t reasonably fit it within the same screenshot.

One of the changes here is the reissuing of this cert through Let’s Encrypt’s SSL service. As you can see, Cloud Cultivator tracks this change from the previous changelog.

Old certificate configuration:

New certificate configuration:

In addition to the change in certificate expiry dates, Cloud Cultivator also has noticed that the serial number and extensions information of the certificate has changed as part of the renewal.

Old certificate configuration:

New certificate configuration:

As you can see, we provide incredibly verbose information on the exact changes that your certificate has undergone for your analysis and audit of your certificate lifecycle. Don’t be stuck out in the dark when your certificate changes with no record. Try Cloud Cultivator today for this sweet feature: https://cloudcultivator.com

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