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CertForge alerts notify your team when conditions that need attention occur — expiring certificates, pending approvals that have gone stale, or policy violations.

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Alert types

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Configuring rules

Go to Admin → Alerts → Rules to create and manage rules.

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Example rules

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How alerts fire

The evaluator runs every 5 minutes. When a rule’s condition is met:
  1. Alert state changes to firing
  2. All subscribed channels and users are notified
  3. Alert stays firing until the condition clears
  4. Cooldown prevents repeat notifications within the configured window

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Notification channels

Configure destinations in Admin → Settings → Notifications:
Use the Send Test button after configuring a channel to confirm delivery before relying on it for real alerts.

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Personal alert subscriptions

Users can subscribe to specific rules to receive personal notifications. Go to Profile → Alert Subscriptions and check the rules you want to follow. Requires an email address on your account and SMTP configured by your admin.

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Application owner notifications

When a cert_expiring rule fires, CertForge also sends a targeted email to each application’s owners listing only the certificates belonging to that application. Unlike org-wide alert channels, this email is scoped to the recipient’s applications — owners see only what they are responsible for. This is opt-in: go to Profile → Alert Subscriptions and check Service cert expiry (notify me as service owner). For more on applications and ownership, see Applications.

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Alert dashboard

Alerts → Overview shows firing alerts, recent history (last 7 days), and all configured rules. Unacknowledged firing alerts show a badge in the navigation. Click Acknowledge on a firing alert to suppress the badge until the condition changes. Acknowledgement is logged with the actor’s identity.