SSL certificate monitoring
See certificate status, expiry dates, issuer information and whether a hostname is reachable over HTTPS. This helps avoid preventable outages and trust warnings.
This manual explains how to use the Scantide dashboard for SSL certificate monitoring, domain lists, single scans, TLD discovery, status views and practical evidence review. The goal is simple: help you see what exists, what expires soon, what is offline, and what needs attention.
Use this path when you want useful monitoring quickly without reading the full manual first.
Open the dashboard login, enter your email address and use the magic link sent to your inbox. A domain-matching email is recommended when you want email reports for that domain.
Either upload a text file with one hostname per line, or use automatic discovery where available. Start with the important names first: main website, mail hostnames, customer portals, API endpoints and brand domains.
Use the dashboard status actions to check certificate expiry, online/offline state, redirects, web titles and visible services. Large lists can take longer, so split very large inventories into practical batches.
Focus first on expired certificates, certificates expiring soon, unexpected offline domains, unknown hostnames and any important service that appears exposed or mislabelled.
Use CSV export or report views when you need to share evidence with IT, operations, vendors or management. Scantide is most useful when results turn into clear remediation tasks.
Scantide dashboard is built for visibility. It helps you collect and organize public-facing domain and certificate evidence, then monitor changes over time.
See certificate status, expiry dates, issuer information and whether a hostname is reachable over HTTPS. This helps avoid preventable outages and trust warnings.
Track domains, subdomains, ports, redirects, web titles and headers. These signals help identify forgotten assets, stale systems and confusing ownership.
Provider, country, ASN and mail-related details can help explain where a service appears to live and which third parties may be involved.
Scantide is intended for domains and infrastructure you own, operate, administer, or are authorized to review. It focuses on observable evidence such as DNS, TLS, HTTP responses, certificates and public service signals. It is not positioned as an exploitation or brute-force tool.
The dashboard uses email-based login to avoid password handling and to keep access simple.
Enter your email address, receive a secure link, and click the link to open the dashboard. This keeps the sign-in flow lightweight and avoids storing a reusable password for the dashboard.
For automated reporting, a domain-matching address is usually best. For example, admin@example.com is more appropriate for reporting on example.com than a generic public mailbox.
Use uploads when you already know which domains should be monitored.
Use a plain text file with one domain or hostname per line. Keep the list clean and avoid comments, full URLs, paths or mixed notes unless the importer explicitly supports them.
The dashboard turns domain lists into status information that can be reviewed, exported and acted on.
Discovers visible hostnames and useful domain evidence where available. Best as a quick starting point.
Adds your own known hostnames for monitoring and status review.
Checks certificate availability, validity and expiry details for your monitored names.
Creates a portable evidence file for follow-up, reporting or internal ticketing.
TLD scanning helps find domains that use your brand name across different extensions. It is useful for inventory cleanup, brand monitoring and spotting forgotten registrations.
A discovered domain is not automatically malicious and not automatically owned by you. Treat TLD results as leads that need review. Check registration, DNS, content, redirects and business ownership before escalating.
Use the single scanner when you want to quickly inspect one public domain without adding it to a larger monitoring list.
Shows certificate subject, issuer, expiry and basic HTTPS availability.
Reviews visible HTTP responses, redirects, web titles and selected security headers.
Captures basic DNS, mail and public service signals where available.
Status pages help you move from raw scan results to decisions: renew, investigate, clean up, ignore, or add to monitoring.
The status view groups hostnames and their scan state. Use it to identify expired certificates, expiring certificates, offline hosts, missing data and domains that need a new scan.
The ViewTLD-style dashboard is useful for exploring brand and TLD results with more detail. It helps connect discovered names with certificate, host, location and availability signals.
Treat indicators as triage labels. They help you decide what to check first, but they do not replace ownership review or operational context.
Usually means the certificate is present and not close to expiry. Still review important systems periodically.
Certificates that expire soon should be renewed before users, integrations or monitoring systems start seeing trust errors.
An expired certificate can break customer trust, APIs, mail flows, integrations and automation.
Offline can mean decommissioned, blocked, DNS-only, temporary downtime, firewall restrictions or scan timeout. Confirm before deleting records.
Unknown results usually need a rescan, DNS check or manual review. Do not assume they are safe or unsafe.
The dashboard is not only for security specialists. It also helps operations, management and support teams understand the visible state of public services.
Expired certificates and confusing redirects can make a service look untrustworthy, even when the underlying company is legitimate.
Forgotten domains, stale DNS and unknown exposed services create noise and can become outages or ownership confusion later.
Provider, country and mail signals can support vendor reviews, policy checks and data-handling discussions.
Most issues come down to email delivery, DNS, large batches, firewall behavior or unclear domain ownership.
Scantide is most useful when the evidence feeds a repeatable workflow.
| Practice | Why it helps | Suggested rhythm |
|---|---|---|
| Keep a clean domain inventory | Reduces forgotten systems and unclear ownership. | Review monthly or after major changes. |
| Watch certificate expiry | Prevents avoidable trust warnings and outages. | Review weekly for important services. |
| Export evidence before changes | Makes it easier to compare before and after remediation. | Before renewals, migrations and cleanup. |
| Confirm unknown domains | A discovered domain may be old, third-party, unrelated or business-critical. | During every brand/TLD review. |
| Document ownership | Scan results become actionable only when someone owns the fix. | Continuously. |
No. Scantide provides evidence and indicators. A clean-looking result is not a guarantee of safety, and a warning does not automatically mean malicious behavior. Use the result as input for review.
Use Scantide for domains and infrastructure you own, operate, administer, or have permission to review. The tool is designed for visibility and monitoring, not unauthorized testing.
Brand names often exist across many domain extensions. TLD checks can reveal forgotten registrations, related domains, or names that should be reviewed for ownership and risk.
Start with expired certificates, important certificates expiring soon, critical systems that are unexpectedly offline, and domains that appear to be active but have unclear ownership.
No. The dashboard is for domain and certificate monitoring. Scantide Observe focuses on browser/mobile website evidence, while Scantide Auditor focuses more on internal or authorized network visibility.
Use the dashboard together with the other Scantide tools when you need broader visibility across browser behavior, mobile checks and internal network auditing.
Scantide is split into focused tools so the right audience gets the right kind of evidence quickly. Use Observe for live website behavior, Online for public domain checks, Dashboard for monitoring, and Auditor when you need authorized internal network visibility.
For Chrome, Edge, Brave and Firefox. Shows trackers, cookies, scripts, security headers, forms, contacted hosts and browser-visible website risk while you browse.
Open Observe guideFor Android users who want to share a URL from a browser or app and understand website privacy, scripts, trackers, infrastructure and jurisdiction context on mobile.
Open Observe MobileFor quick public-domain checks. Reviews visible TLS, DNS, headers, redirects, services, provider and jurisdiction signals for a website or domain.
Run single scanFor teams that need recurring certificate and domain visibility, status views, uploaded domain lists, expiry warnings and evidence history.
Open dashboard loginFor Windows admins reviewing authorized internal networks. Finds reachable hosts, visible services, web responses, TLS clues and CMDB gaps in clear HTML reports.
Open PowerShell AuditorFor mobile field checks and quick local network visibility. Useful for Wi-Fi review, nearby network context and on-site authorized infrastructure checks.
Open Android Auditor