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PatchMon implements rate limiting to protect your instance from abuse, brute force attacks, and excessive load. This guide explains how rate limiting works, how to identify rate limit issues, and how to adjust limits for your deployment. Understanding HTTP 429...

This document provides a comprehensive reference for all environment variables available in PatchMon. These variables can be configured in your backend/.env file (bare metal installations) or in the .env file alongside docker-compose.yml (Docker deployments us...

We decided it would be useful for us and the community to understand and know three key pieces of information about PatchMon instances out in the field. Qty of installations / live setups Qty of hosts being monitored Version number of your instance Thi...

Overview PatchMon's Integration API provides programmatic access to your PatchMon instance, enabling automation, integration with third-party tools, and custom workflows. API credentials use HTTP Basic Authentication with scoped permissions to control access t...

Table of Contents System Overview Nginx Reverse Proxy BullMQ Queue System Database Schema API Credential Scoping WebSocket Communication Agent Communication Flow Authentication & Authorization System Overview mermaid graph TB subgraph "Cl...

Github Repo : https://github.com/PatchMon/PatchMon-ansible/tree/main A dynamic inventory plugin for Ansible that queries the PatchMon HTTP JSON API and exposes hosts as an Ansible inventory. Description The dynamic_inventory plugin allows you to use PatchMon a...

✨ Major Features Docker Support (still in beta) Previously the docker collector was a script that was ran (also through cron), now it's baked into the Agent binary file and therefore no need for a separate bash script. It also leverages the same credentials.ym...

✨Fixes and Enhancements ARM support Supports the installation of ARM and ARM64 agents. Drop down added when creating the command for the installation of the agent and also modified the logic of version handling when the PatchMon server is hosted on an ARM base...

✨Fixes and Enhancements Alpine Support Version 1.3.4 brings about better apk support for Alpine OS Auto-enrollment API In Integration settings you can now create a single command (like a master command) which does not require that you add the host first. This ...

Fixed critical Bug relating to auto-update failing and looping in a reboot due to incorrect version checking mechanism. Especially on x86 or ARM processors, the version checking method was flawed so it kept trying to reinstall the agent. This release will be...

Fixed ProxMox Auto-enrollment script

📝 ALERT : Auto-update of Agent issue Versions <1.3.6 have an issue where the service does not restart after auto-update. OpenRC systems are unaffected and work correctly. This means you will unfortunately have to use systemctl start patchmon-agent on your syst...

🎉 PatchMon 1.4.0 A major release with security compliance scanning, OIDC SSO, an alerting engine, web SSH terminal, and AI-assisted terminal support. 🛡️ Security Compliance Scanning OpenSCAP CIS Benchmark scanning directly from the agent (Level 1 / Level 2) D...

Overview PatchMon supports OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication, allowing users to log in via an external Identity Provider (IdP) instead of, or in addition to, local username/password credentials. Supported Providers Any OIDC-compliant provider works, includi...

Overview The PatchMon agent is configured through a YAML configuration file located at /etc/patchmon/config.yml. This file controls how the agent communicates with the PatchMon server, where logs are stored, which integrations are active, and other runtime beh...

Overview The PatchMon agent is a compiled Go binary (patchmon-agent) that runs as a persistent service on monitored hosts. It maintains a WebSocket connection to the PatchMon server for real-time communication, sends periodic package and system reports, collec...