Monitor SSL certificate expiry and Alert PagerDuty the Moment It Breaks

On a schedule, this checks ssl certificate expiry and — only when something is actually wrong — fires a PagerDuty alert with the details, so you hear about problems before your customers do.

difficulty Beginnersetup 20 minresult You get an immediate PagerDuty alert whenever ssl certificate expiry fails, and silence when everything's healthy.
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    Step 1 — Schedule the check

    Add a Schedule Trigger. Every 5 minutes for uptime; once a day is plenty for expiry checks.

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    Step 2 — Run the check

    Add an HTTP Request node that inspects the TLS certificate and reads its expiry date.

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    Step 3 — Decide if it's a problem

    Add an If node: continue only when the remaining days drop below your threshold (e.g. 21). This keeps things quiet when all is well.

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    Step 4 — Alert PagerDuty

    Add an HTTP Request node that POSTs to the PagerDuty Events API v2 with what failed, the value observed, and a timestamp as the summary, so an incident is opened automatically.

Frequently asked questions

How do I avoid alert storms?

Add a "seen" flag or a cooldown so a persistent outage alerts once, not every 5 minutes. n8n's static data or a small store handles this cleanly.

Can I monitor several targets?

Yes — feed a list of URLs/domains into Step 2 and loop, so one workflow covers your whole estate and still alerts PagerDuty per failure.

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