mod_apt

About

This module monitors for pending system updates in APT based systems.

Deprecated as of version 0.1.18, replaced by mod_pkg.

This module will be removed in version 1.0.0.

System requirements

• Can only be used in APT based Linux distributions, such as Debian, Ubuntu, etc.
• python3-apt system package must be installed.
• APT cache must be automatically updated by the system itself because this operation would require root.

Alerts

This module will issue an INCIDENT level alerts when updates are available.

Metadata

This module will report all pending updates in metadata of this module.

Metrics

None.

Configuration

None.