5. Certificate Discovery

Search Certificate Transparency (CT) logs for every certificate issued

Plan Requirement: Certificate Discovery (CT Log Monitoring) is an advanced feature and is only available on our Business and higher tier plans.

The Discovery tab in CertKit monitors public Certificate Transparency (CT) logs for certificates issued against your domains. This provides visibility into:

  • Unmanaged Issuance: Identify certificates issued outside of CertKit.
  • Third-party Activity: Detect certificates issued by contractors or external partners.
  • Inventory Baseline: Assess your existing certificate footprint during onboarding.
Discovery search
The Discovery search page.

The CertKit Issued badge identifies certificates managed by CertKit. Rows that don’t have this badge are opportunities for additional automation.

Export

You can export up to 1000 records from each search as a CSV file.