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by akerl_ 850 days ago
I auto renew all my certs via either AWS ACM or lego.

I also have monitoring that alerts me if a cert is nearing expiry.

I’ve been alerted several times and been able to correct bugs or hiccups that would have caused the live cert to expire.

Automation is not a replacement for monitoring: they are complementary.

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> Automation is not a replacement for monitoring: they are complementary

absolutely. there are any number of reasons Caddy would be unable to renew the cert, just off the top of my head:

- LetsEncrypt has downtime or unavailability

- If you're doing dns-01 challenges for LE, whatever cred Caddy uses for that might expire / become invalidated.

- disk fills up (or gets unexpectedly remounted read-only) and Caddy is unable to write the renewed certs