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Monitoring HTTPS certificates with curl and openssl

If you want to know when your SSL certificates expire, you can either buy a monitoring service or write a small shell script. This guide is the shell script version — what to check, how to check it with standard tools, and what to do when the check fails.

MyUptimeBot Team · June 23, 2026 · 6 min read · For developers

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