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In your case, "something breaks in your automation" might mean that, by the time the cert is (about to be) in need of renewal, the notifications you set up are

• RamRodification 4y ago
  If "monitoring" is set up as "send email to specific personal mailbox" then things are gonna suck a lot.
  • derefr 4y ago
    I was more imagining that it was going to an email account called e.g. "devops@"; and then when you left (possibly very quickly, e.g. via termination), the need for the continuity of that account was forgotten, because it had never become institutional knowledge; and then during a reorg, a new group (= email distribution list) was created to match the new department name; with nobody remembering to forward devops@ to the new address, because it wasn't receiving emails anybody needed to see on any sort of consistent basis, only these once-in-a-blue-moon emails.
    • RamRodification 4y ago
      That's one reason why nobody who knows what they're doing relies (solely) on email for monitoring. You use a monitoring solution, and if that whole system gets "forgotten" then there are bigger problems anyway.
  • adobrawy 4y ago
    The same can happen if you assign it to the team's mailbox, reorganizations happen at all levels.
    • RamRodification 4y ago
      Of course it "can happen". Anything "can happen". It's about mitigating risk by picking a strategy. In this case, from worst to better: personal mailbox -> team mailbox -> an actual monitoring solution and not friggin emails.