Automate Certificates documentation

Getting started

Automate Certificates issues and renews TLS certificates through ACME v2, deploys them to your servers and cloud services, and warns you before one expires. A workspace holds your certificates, targets, members and audit log.

Start a trial or buy a plan

  1. Open the Automate Certificates buy page on spot-suite.com and choose Team or Business.
  2. Pay by card to start the 30-day trial, or choose invoice billing, which is paid from day one and has no trial.
  3. Wait for the confirmation. Your workspace address has the form https://<workspace>.automate-certificates.com.

Sign in

Open your workspace address and choose Sign in with Spot Suite. Every plan signs in with a Spot Suite account.

Set up your first certificate

  1. In Settings, register an ACME account. A certificate cannot be requested before one exists.
  2. On the Certificates page, request a certificate for a domain you control.
  3. Add a deployment target, then deploy the certificate to it.
  4. Check the Alerts page: expiry and failed-renewal alerts start on their own.

Start with a certificate that has a real owner and a real outage risk, such as a public web certificate.

Where things are

AreaWhat it is for
DashboardCertificates, targets, deployments, alerts and upcoming expiries.
CertificatesRequest, import, renew, revoke, export and deploy certificates.
DeploymentsEvery deployment run and its result.
DiscoveryScans that find certificates missing from your inventory.
AlertsIn-app alerts, alert rules and webhooks.
API KeysScoped keys for programmatic access.
Audit LogWho changed what, and when.
SettingsACME accounts and workspace settings.