Loading howto/upgrades.md +28 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -109,6 +109,34 @@ the timer `prometheus-node-exporter-apt.timer` triggers. It currently runs every 15 minutes, so it's probably not necessary to trigger it by hand to speed things up. ## Blocked upgrades <!-- note that this section is cross-referenced from the --> <!-- OutdatedPackages alert in prometheus-alerts.git change the --> <!-- link target there if you change the heading here. --> Outdated packages are packages that don't currently relate to one of the configured package archives. Some causes for the presence of outdated packages might be: * leftovers from an OS upgrade * apt source got removed but not packages installed from it * patched package was installed locally If you want to know which packages are marked as obsolete, you can use the following two commands: apt list "?obsolete" # The following will mainly print the same list as above, but there might be # some more in its list. DEBUG=1 /usr/share/prometheus-node-exporter-collectors/apt_info.py Check the state of each package with `apt policy $package` to determine what needs to be done with it. If most cases, the packages can just be purged, but maybe not if they are obsolete because an apt source was lost. In that latter case, you may want to check out why the source was removed and make sure to bring it back. ## Out of date package lists The `AptUpdateLagging` looks like this: Loading Loading
howto/upgrades.md +28 −0 Original line number Diff line number Diff line Loading @@ -109,6 +109,34 @@ the timer `prometheus-node-exporter-apt.timer` triggers. It currently runs every 15 minutes, so it's probably not necessary to trigger it by hand to speed things up. ## Blocked upgrades <!-- note that this section is cross-referenced from the --> <!-- OutdatedPackages alert in prometheus-alerts.git change the --> <!-- link target there if you change the heading here. --> Outdated packages are packages that don't currently relate to one of the configured package archives. Some causes for the presence of outdated packages might be: * leftovers from an OS upgrade * apt source got removed but not packages installed from it * patched package was installed locally If you want to know which packages are marked as obsolete, you can use the following two commands: apt list "?obsolete" # The following will mainly print the same list as above, but there might be # some more in its list. DEBUG=1 /usr/share/prometheus-node-exporter-collectors/apt_info.py Check the state of each package with `apt policy $package` to determine what needs to be done with it. If most cases, the packages can just be purged, but maybe not if they are obsolete because an apt source was lost. In that latter case, you may want to check out why the source was removed and make sure to bring it back. ## Out of date package lists The `AptUpdateLagging` looks like this: Loading