Dashboards and KPIs

Dashboards and KPIs in CERTInext provide a real-time, visual representation of certificate health, risk posture, and operational effectiveness across the organization. They allow administrators, security teams, and management to quickly understand the current state of certificates and identify areas requiring attention.

Dashboards consolidate data from certificate inventory, discovery scans, expiry monitoring, policy evaluation, and CT log monitoring, presenting it in an actionable and easy-to-interpret format.

What Dashboards Show in CERTInext

CERTInext dashboards display key metrics that reflect the overall certificate posture, including:

• Total Certificates Under Management Count of all certificates issued, discovered, or monitored across environments.

• Expiry Status Indicators Certificates that are expiring soon, already expired, or renewed recently.

• Policy Compliance Metrics Number of certificates that are compliant versus those violating defined policies.

• Discovery Coverage Visibility into certificates discovered via Bots and external sources such as CT logs.

• CA Distribution Breakdown of certificates by issuing Certificate Authority (public or private).

These metrics are continuously updated as certificates move through their lifecycle.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

KPIs in CERTInext are designed to measure risk, readiness, and operational efficiency.

Common KPIs include:

• Percentage of certificates expiring within defined thresholds

• Count of high-severity policy violations

• Reduction in expired certificates over time

• Discovery success rate across environments

• Renewal completion rates before expiry

KPIs help teams track trends rather than isolated events, enabling data-driven decision-making.

Identifying Issues Using Dashboards

Dashboards act as an early warning system by highlighting abnormal patterns or spikes, such as:

• Sudden increase in expiring certificates

• Growth in non-compliant or vulnerable certificates

• Gaps in discovery coverage

• Increased dependency on specific CAs

Users can drill down from high-level KPIs to certificate-level details, allowing quick identification of affected certificates, owners, and deployment locations.

Acting on Dashboard Insights

Dashboards are tightly integrated with certificate inventory and lifecycle actions. From dashboard views, users can:

• Navigate directly to affected certificates

• Initiate renewal or replacement workflows

• Review policy violation details

• Correlate dashboard data with alerts and notifications

This integration ensures that dashboards are not passive reports but active operational tools.