Where Spreadsheets Help
- Manual inventory lists
- Quick one-off planning or audit exports
- Very small environments with low change volume
Comparison
Spreadsheets can list certificate dates. Certhelm is built to operate the work around them.
Teams often start with spreadsheets because they are simple. They break down when monitoring, ownership, delivery, internal visibility, and workflow need to stay synchronized across real environments.
Where They Break
- No live reachability or TLS handshake signal
- No active alert delivery model
- Ownership drift across teams and customers
- No internal visibility unless someone remembers to update the sheet
Why Certhelm Wins
- Live monitoring for website reachability and certificate health
- Customer-scoped delivery settings and workflow context
- Reports and status views instead of stale inventory rows
- LAN collectors when internal environments need visibility too
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