What is the schedule for "Automatically update Atlassian-selected apps"

[Joseph Koivisto]

We are running Confluence v 6.15.10 on our servers and have been investigating the automatic update feature for apps. I have not been able to find in the documentation when it will automatically run. I have activated it but have not seen any activity that would indicate that it is automatically running (For instance "Atlassian Troubleshooting and Support Tools" and "Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant" indicate that they have available updates but nothing has updated after activating the automation feature). 1) Does anyone know when it is scheduled to run? 2) Is this adjustable? 3) Are there conditions that must be met for this feature to work (i.e. will not work if update is already available when feature is activated?).

[Daniel Eads · Accepted solution]

Hi Joseph, welcome to the Community!

You're right in noting this information isn't readily available online - a bit of this needed to be chased down so hopefully this answer will help others out in the future too :)

1. The update check runs between 1am and 2am local time (whatever timezone your server is set to). The exact minute is a bit random in order to spread the load to Marketplace over the hour. We expect that the plugin manager would try to update available plugins at this time.
2. You could potentially modify the local time? I wouldn't necessarily recommend that for this however... the check does run daily, and having incorrect time on your system could be more confusing to end-users than the adjustment is worth.
3. I believe the updates would only happen when the plugin manager checks for new versions - so if you enable the option today, you won't see the effects until tomorrow as the update job runs about every 24 hours. App vendors also have the option to not opt their apps in to auto-update, so it's possible you might find some apps don't actually auto-update themselves. Only the vendor would know if they've got the auto-update setting enabled for each individual app in Marketplace however, so if you find some apps just simply refuse to auto-update, you would need to reach out to the app support listed on the marketplace page and ask them to enable it.

I hope that helps clear things up!

Cheers,
Daniel

[Joseph Koivisto]

Excellent. Thank you for the background and thorough explanation of the feature. I do hope that some of this response might find it's way back into the documentation :)

[Benjamin West]

Could documentation for this feature of UPM be updated to indicate that the check runs circa 1am local time?