Check Expiring Certs

Check Expiring Certs is a fast and simple tool designed for efficiently monitoring HTTPS certificates expiration. It warns if an SSL/TLS certificate on a specified hosts is due to expire within a configurable number of days.

Installation

1. Using Go:

   • Install Go (version 1.x or later recommended).
   • Run the following command:

     go install github.com/ei-grad/check-expiring-certs@latest
     

2. Alternative Method - Github Releases:

   1. Download the archive:
      • Visit the releases page.
      • Choose and download the file for your operating system and platform (amd64 or arm64). For Mac/Linux, it's a .tar.gz file, and for Windows, it's a .zip file.
   2. Extract the Archive:
      • For Mac/Linux: Use the command tar -xzf [filename].tar.gz in the terminal.
      • For Windows: Right-click the .zip file and select "Extract All...".
   3. Using the Executable:
      • For Mac/Linux: In the terminal, navigate to the extracted folder and run ./check-expiring-certs.
      • For Windows: Open Command Prompt, navigate to the extracted folder, and run check-expiring-certs.exe.

Usage

Run the command with the following syntax:

check-expiring-certs [options] <host:port> [<host:port> ...]

It exits with return code 1 if any certificates are expiring soon or connections failed, and writes a message like 'Certificate for host (common-name) expires in time-until-expiration'. Connection errors are also logged to stdout.

The tool accepts host:port arguments, defaulting to port 443 if omitted, and allows server_name:host:port to specify a different server name for TLS SNI.

Options

• -warn N: Warn if a certificate is expiring within N days (default: 7).
• -timeout DURATION: Set a timeout for each connection (default: 2s).
• -c N: Specify the number of concurrent checks (default: 128).

Examples

1. Checking multiple domains:

   check-expiring-certs -warn 14 google.com github.com
   

2. Custom timeout and checking internal IPs:

   check-expiring-certs -warn 30 -timeout 5s 10.0.0.1:8443 192.168.0.5:9443
   

3. Checking an IPv6 address:

   check-expiring-certs [2a02:6b8:a::a]:443
   

4. Custom IP address to connect:

   check-expiring-certs github.com:1.2.3.4:443
   

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.