Use this dashboard to track certificate readiness, expiry, controller activity, ACME operations, and resource usage across all Kubernetes namespaces.
To use this dashboard, configure the OpenTelemetry Collector to scrape cert-manager Prometheus metrics and send them to SigNoz. Follow the Cert-Manager Metrics guide to get started.
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Dashboard Variables
- namespace: Filter by Kubernetes namespace
- issuer_name: Filter by Issuer or ClusterIssuer name
- deployment_environment: Filter by deployment environment
What This Dashboard Monitors
- Certificate health: readiness status and not-ready counts across all namespaces
- Issuer status: ClusterIssuer and namespace Issuer readiness
- Controller performance: reconciliation call rate and error rate per controller
- ACME operations: outbound ACME request rate, error rate, and average latency by action (ACME issuers only)
- Webhook health: admission request rate by HTTP status code and average admission latency
- Work queue: depth and enqueue rate per controller queue
- Resource usage: CPU and RSS memory per component (controller, webhook, cainjector)
Metrics Included
Certificate Health
- Total Certificates: all certificates cert-manager is managing
- Ready Certificates: certificates in Ready state, actively serving TLS
- Not Ready Certificates: non-zero triggers a threshold alert
- Webhook Requests In-Flight: current admission requests in progress
- Certificate Ready Status per Cert: ready condition (1/0) per certificate, by name and namespace
- Not Ready Certificates by Namespace: not-ready count aggregated by namespace
Controller Performance
- Controller Sync Call Rate:
sync()invocations per second, by controller - Controller Sync Error Rate: failed
sync()operations per second, by controller
ACME Operations
These panels populate only when cert-manager uses an ACME issuer such as Let's Encrypt. Self-signed and CA issuers don't generate these metrics.
- ACME Request Rate by Action: outbound ACME requests per second, by action (
getNonce,createOrder,finalizeOrder, etc.) - ACME Error Rate (non-2xx) by Action: non-2xx ACME responses per second, by action
- ACME Average Request Duration by Action: mean ACME request latency, by action
Webhook Health
- Webhook Request Rate by Status Code: admission requests per second, grouped by HTTP response code
- Webhook Average Admission Latency: mean webhook processing time
Work Queue
- Work Queue Depth by Controller: current queue depth per controller
- Work Queue Add Rate by Controller: items enqueued per second, by controller
Resource Usage
- CPU Usage by Component: CPU utilization rate per component
- Memory Usage by Component: RSS memory in bytes per component
