Is it possible to to monitor installed packages/softwares updates on a server ?
#Is it possible to to monitor installed packages/softwares updates on a server ?
harsh dawn
@narrow cosmos hey
So are you looking to monitor specific version changes or just updater activity
Could i think be that maybe filecheck could do versions: https://learn.netdata.cloud/docs/agent/collectors/go.d.plugin/modules/filecheck
will it probably all depends actually - give us some more specifics or an example and we can discuss - i do recall someone asking similar a while back - will try dig that out
narrow cosmos
For the moment I use a bash script that sends each 2-3 days notifications for packages and id they have any updates/new versions
SocI was asking if there is any kind of plugin or functionality in netdata to be able to check available updates for the installed packages on the server
narrow cosmos
<@205106135793926144> hey
And thank you for being available and answering my request 🌹
harsh dawn
so i guess in this case you could have your bash script create a file called updates_are_available and then use filecheck to check for existence of that file and maybe. the filecheck collector can then alert on that file existing. Or you could create a file called updates_check_results and only update it if is updates available and then point filecheck at the time since last modification.
i don't think there is any specific collector that just does this out of the box or anything
narrow cosmos
so i guess in this case you could have your bash script create a file called `up...
Oh yeah, is it possible to have in the future you think ?
harsh dawn
Oh yeah, is it possible to have in the future you think ?
Maybe make a feature request at https://github.com/netdata/netdata/issues/new/choose
And we can see if wider community has similar needs.
