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AWS Cloudwatch metric for Ubuntu security updates available
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| aws cloudwatch put-metric-data --metric-name "Security Updates Available" --dimensions InstanceId=$(ec2metadata --instance-id) --namespace "EC2" --value $(/usr/lib/update-notifier/apt-check 2>&1 | cut -d ';' -f 2) |
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requires cloud-utils and aws cli
for all updates not just security ones change "cut -d ';' -f 2" to "cut -d ';' -f 1"