Documentation Index

Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://composer.docs.vindral.com/llms.txt

Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

Updating

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THE DOCUMENTATION HAS PERMANENTLY MOVED

This website contains old documentation. The new documentation can be found at https://composer-docs.vindral.com/.
The new documentation contains more information for both users and developers.

Composer Monitor releases are delivered as a compressed zip archive.

Each release contains a complete setup with dashboards.

Backup Composer Monitor before updating

If you have many changes or additions - take a backup of your entire Composer Monitor folder before updating to prevent any data loss.

General

General

  1. Composer monitor expects that the zip file and its content is extracted and used in its entirety to work.
  2. Any modifications to included dashboards will be overwritten. It is the customer's responsibility to identify and merge any changes made.
  3. Any extensions (added dashboards) not included in the zip file's dashboard folder will not be overwritten.

Update

Backup composerInstances.yml

Make sure to backup composerInstances.yml before proceeding (or make sure not to overwrite it with the updated zip's contents

  1. Overwrite the Composer Monitor folder with the updated contents.
  2. Restore the backup version of composerInstances.yml
  3. Restart Composer Monitor

Depending on how Docker is setup on the system, perform either version below that works:

docker compose restart

or