Added info about network usage requirements for the update script. (#10334)
Austin S. Hemmelgarn committed
Dec 8, 2020 at 07:19 UTC
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With automatic updates disabled, you can choose exactly when and how you [update
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Netdata](/packaging/installer/UPDATE.md).
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+### Network usage of Netdata’s automatic updater
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+The auto-update functionality set up by the installation scripts requires working internet access to function
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+correctly. In particular, it currently requires access to GitHub (to check if a newer version of the updater script
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+is available or not, as well as potentially fetching build-time dependencies that are bundled as part of the install),
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+and Google Cloud Storage (to check for newer versions of Netdata and download the sources if there is a newer version).
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+Note that the auto-update functionality will check for updates to itself independently of updates to Netdata,
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+and will try to use the latest version of the updater script whenever possible. This is intended to reduce the
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+amount of effort required by users to get updates working again in the event of a bug in the updater code.
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## Nightly vs. stable releases
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The Netdata team maintains two releases of the Netdata agent: **nightly** and **stable**. By default, Netdata's