Monitoring

How to monitor Updatectrl's activity and performance.

Logs

Systemd Logs

journalctl -u updatectrl -f

Manual Runs

When running updatectrl watch manually, output goes to stdout.

Metrics

Update Frequency

Monitor how often projects are updated:

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

Success Rate

Check for failures:

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

Health Checks

Service Status

systemctl status updatectrl

Configuration Validation

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

Performance

Monitor resource usage:

ps aux | grep updatectrl

Adjust interval based on system load.