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Check mydumper-version

Overview

Checks whether a newer version of mydumper/myloader is available by comparing the locally installed version against the latest release from the GitHub API.

Important Notes:

  • Requires mydumper to be installed and available in the system PATH

Data Collection:

  • Runs mydumper --version locally to determine the installed version
  • Queries the GitHub releases API for the latest version of mydumper/mydumper
  • Caches the latest version information locally to reduce API calls (default: 24 hours)

Fact Sheet

Fact Value
Check Plugin Download https://github.com/Linuxfabrik/monitoring-plugins/tree/main/check-plugins/mydumper-version
Nagios/Icinga Check Name check_mydumper_version
Check Interval Recommendation Every day
Can be called without parameters Yes
Runs on Cross-platform
Compiled for Windows No
Uses SQLite DBs $TEMP/linuxfabrik-monitoring-plugins-mydumper-version.db

Help

usage: mydumper-version [-h] [-V] [--always-ok] [--cache-expire CACHE_EXPIRE]
                        [--test TEST]

Checks if a newer version of mydumper is available by querying the GitHub
releases API. Alerts when the installed version is outdated.

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -V, --version         show program's version number and exit
  --always-ok           Always returns OK.
  --cache-expire CACHE_EXPIRE
                        The amount of time after which the credential/data
                        cache expires, in minutes. Default: 24
  --test TEST           For unit tests. Needs "path-to-stdout-file,path-to-
                        stderr-file,expected-retc".

Usage Examples

./mydumper-version --cache-expire 8 --always-ok

Output:

mydumper/myloader v0.10.5 is up to date

States

  • OK if the installed version is up to date.
  • WARN if a newer version is available.
  • --always-ok suppresses all alerts and always returns OK.

Perfdata / Metrics

Name Type Description
mydumper-version Number Installed mydumper version as float.

Credits, License