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| author | Austin S. Hemmelgarn <austin@netdata.cloud> | 2020-12-08 07:19:52 -0500 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2020-12-08 07:19:52 -0500 |
| commit | 4426c51bffd814a9e3efcf149a62c40a01eb090d (patch) | |
| tree | 61779a2e914ae4b0de37800864bc116f22d7b71f /packaging | |
| parent | f00099720874b69738ae68d51855ac4330e410f5 (diff) | |
Added info about network usage requirements for the update script. (#10334)
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diff --git a/packaging/installer/README.md b/packaging/installer/README.md index 2884530684..50cdbdb74c 100644 --- a/packaging/installer/README.md +++ b/packaging/installer/README.md @@ -140,6 +140,17 @@ bash <(curl -Ss https://my-netdata.io/kickstart.sh) --no-updates With automatic updates disabled, you can choose exactly when and how you [update Netdata](/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md). +### Network usage of Netdata’s automatic updater + +The auto-update functionality set up by the installation scripts requires working internet access to function +correctly. In particular, it currently requires access to GitHub (to check if a newer version of the updater script +is available or not, as well as potentially fetching build-time dependencies that are bundled as part of the install), +and Google Cloud Storage (to check for newer versions of Netdata and download the sources if there is a newer version). + +Note that the auto-update functionality will check for updates to itself independently of updates to Netdata, +and will try to use the latest version of the updater script whenever possible. This is intended to reduce the +amount of effort required by users to get updates working again in the event of a bug in the updater code. + ## Nightly vs. stable releases The Netdata team maintains two releases of the Netdata agent: **nightly** and **stable**. By default, Netdata's |