Spectra watches your SSL certificates and domain registrations around the clock, and alerts you at 60, 30, 14, and 7 days before expiry. So a forgotten renewal never becomes a 3am incident.
Every SSL & Domain monitor checks both your certificate and your domain registration — because both can expire and both can take your site offline.
We check your certificate's expiry date against the live TLS handshake — not cached DNS data — so you always know the exact days remaining on the certificate your visitors actually see.
An expired domain is worse than an expired SSL — your site disappears entirely and can be registered by someone else. We monitor your WHOIS record and alert before your domain lapses.
Beyond expiry, we verify the certificate is valid — not just present. A cert can be installed but misconfigured, self-signed, or issued for a different domain. We catch all of these.
SSL and domain expiry can happen silently. Spectra makes sure you're always one step ahead.
Spectra goes beyond the expiry date to confirm the certificate your visitors actually receive is valid and trusted.
This is what the SSL renewal process looks like when Spectra is watching. No surprises. No scrambling. Just a task completed during normal hours.
Spectra sends the first expiry notice. Your team reads "Renew SSL for checkout" to the upcoming sprint — no urgency, no stress.
Second alert fires. An engineer is assigned the renewal task. Most CAs accept renewals this far out, so there's no rush.
Engineer renews the certificate. Spectra detects the new expiry date within minutes and updates the dashboard. Alert status clears automatically.
No browser warnings. No blocked transactions. No emergency calls. Just a routine renewal that happened during business hours — exactly as it should.
Certificate expiry dates only change when a cert is renewed or a domain is transferred. Spectra uses dedicated SSL check intervals — separate from your uptime check interval — so you're not burning unnecessary checks.
For low-risk domains with long expiry windows and auto-renew enabled. Low resource usage.
The recommended default. Balanced between detection speed and efficiency. Catches same-day renewals.
For critical domains or certificates nearing expiry. Fastest detection of renewal or failure.
Alert timing within threshold
Answers to common questions teams ask us
We perform a live TLS handshake to the certificate your visitors actually receive, then read its expiry date, issuer, chain, and hostname — not a cached record.
By default we alert at 60, 30, 14, and 7 days before expiry, and you can fully customise those thresholds per monitor.
Yes. Beyond expiry we check the chain of trust, issuer and hostname match, self-signed and revoked certificates — so misconfigurations are caught too.
Yes. Auto-renew can silently fail (expired card, registrar issue). Spectra confirms the renewal actually happened rather than assuming it did.
Yes — SSL and domain expiry monitoring is included on every plan, including Free.
