Check gitlab-version

Overview

This plugin lets you track if GitLab is End-of-Life (EOL). To compare against the current/installed version of GitLab, the check has to run on the GitLab server itself.

Fact Sheet

Check Plugin Download

https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/gitlab-version

Check Interval Recommendation

Once a day

Can be called without parameters

Yes

Compiled for

Linux

Uses SQLite DBs

$TEMP/linuxfabrik-lib-version.db

Help

usage: gitlab-version [-h] [-V] [--always-ok]

Tracks if GitLab is EOL.

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  -V, --version  show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok    Always returns OK.

Usage Examples

./gitlab-version

Output:

GitLab v15.8.0 (EOL 2023-04-22 [WARNING])

States

  • If wanted, always returns OK,

  • else returns WARN if Software is EOL

Perfdata / Metrics

Name

Type

Description

gitlab-version

Number

Installed GitLab version as float. „15.8.0“ becomes „15.80“.

Credits, License