Monitoring

How to monitor Updatectl's activity and performance.

Logs

Systemd Logs

journalctl -u updatectl -f

Manual Runs

When running updatectl watch manually, output goes to stdout.

Metrics

Update Frequency

Monitor how often projects are updated:

journalctl -u updatectl | grep "Checking" | wc -l

Success Rate

Check for failures:

journalctl -u updatectl | grep "failed\|Failed" | tail

Health Checks

Service Status

systemctl status updatectl

Configuration Validation

python3 -c "import yaml; yaml.safe_load(open('/etc/updatectl/updatectl.yaml'))"

Performance

Monitor resource usage:

ps aux | grep updatectl

Adjust intervalMinutes based on system load.