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x509 Certificate Input Plugin

This plugin provides information about X.509 certificates accessible e.g. via local file, tcp, udp, https or smtp protocols and the Windows Certificate Store.

When using a UDP address as a certificate source, the server must support DTLS.

Introduced in: Telegraf v1.8.0 Tags: network OS support: all

Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See CONFIGURATION.md for more details.

Configuration

# Reads metrics from a SSL certificate
[[inputs.x509_cert]]
  ## List certificate sources, support wildcard expands for files
  ## Prefix your entry with 'file://' if you intend to use relative paths
  sources = ["tcp://example.org:443", "https://influxdata.com:443",
            "smtp://mail.localhost:25", "udp://127.0.0.1:4433",
            "/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem",
            "/etc/mycerts/*.mydomain.org.pem", "file:///path/to/*.pem",
            "jks:///etc/mycerts/keystore.jks",
            "pkcs12:///etc/mycerts/keystore.p12",
            "wincertstore://machine:ROOT", "wincertstore://user:CA"]

  ## Timeout for SSL connection
  # timeout = "5s"

  ## Pass a different name into the TLS request (Server Name Indication).
  ## This is synonymous with tls_server_name, and only one of the two
  ## options may be specified at one time.
  ##   example: server_name = "myhost.example.org"
  # server_name = "myhost.example.org"

  ## Only output the leaf certificates and omit the root ones.
  # exclude_root_certs = false

  ## Pad certificate serial number with zeroes to 128-bits.
  # pad_serial_with_zeroes = false

  ## Password to be used with PKCS#12 or JKS files
  # password = ""

  ## Optional TLS Config
  # tls_ca = "/etc/telegraf/ca.pem"
  # tls_cert = "/etc/telegraf/cert.pem"
  # tls_key = "/etc/telegraf/key.pem"
  # tls_server_name = "myhost.example.org"

  ## Set the proxy URL
  # use_proxy = true
  # proxy_url = "http://localhost:8888"

Windows Certificate Store

When accessing certificates on the local Windows Certificate Store you have to select the certificate folder by using a URI or the form

wincertstore://[location]:<folder>

With the location being either the local machine (default) or local user store. The folder has to be the non-translated, English folder name as can be found under the registry keys HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\SystemCertificates for the machine location or HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SystemCertificates for the user location. See the Windows documentation for details.

Metrics

  • x509_cert
    • tags:
      • type - “leaf”, “intermediate” or “root” classification of certificate
      • source - source of the certificate
      • organization
      • organizational_unit
      • country
      • province
      • locality
      • verification
      • serial_number
      • signature_algorithm
      • public_key_algorithm
      • issuer_common_name
      • issuer_serial_number
      • san
      • ocsp_stapled
      • ocsp_status (when ocsp_stapled=yes)
      • ocsp_verified (when ocsp_stapled=yes)
    • fields:
      • verification_code (int)
      • verification_error (string)
      • expiry (int, seconds) - Time when the certificate will expire, in seconds since the Unix epoch. SELECT (expiry / 60 / 60 / 24) as "expiry_in_days"
      • age (int, seconds)
      • startdate (int, seconds)
      • enddate (int, seconds)
      • ocsp_status_code (int)
      • ocsp_next_update (int, seconds)
      • ocsp_produced_at (int, seconds)
      • ocsp_this_update (int, seconds)

Example Output

x509_cert,common_name=ubuntu,ocsp_stapled=no,source=/etc/ssl/certs/ssl-cert-snakeoil.pem,verification=valid age=7693222i,enddate=1871249033i,expiry=307666777i,startdate=1555889033i,verification_code=0i 1563582256000000000
x509_cert,common_name=www.example.org,country=US,locality=Los\ Angeles,organization=Internet\ Corporation\ for\ Assigned\ Names\ and\ Numbers,organizational_unit=Technology,province=California,ocsp_stapled=no,source=https://example.org:443,verification=invalid age=20219055i,enddate=1606910400i,expiry=43328144i,startdate=1543363200i,verification_code=1i,verification_error="x509: certificate signed by unknown authority" 1563582256000000000
x509_cert,common_name=DigiCert\ SHA2\ Secure\ Server\ CA,country=US,organization=DigiCert\ Inc,ocsp_stapled=no,source=https://example.org:443,verification=valid age=200838255i,enddate=1678276800i,expiry=114694544i,startdate=1362744000i,verification_code=0i 1563582256000000000
x509_cert,common_name=DigiCert\ Global\ Root\ CA,country=US,organization=DigiCert\ Inc,organizational_unit=www.digicert.com,ocsp_stapled=yes,ocsp_status=good,ocsp_verified=yes,source=https://example.org:443,verification=valid age=400465455i,enddate=1952035200i,expiry=388452944i,ocsp_next_update=1676714398i,ocsp_produced_at=1676112480i,ocsp_status_code=0i,ocsp_this_update=1676109600i,startdate=1163116800i,verification_code=0i 1563582256000000000

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