Common Types

This document provides a reference for common types used in the configuration and operation of the system.

Agent

An agent can be specified using:

• local: The primary mission control instance.
• uuid: The UUID of an agent.
• name: The name of an agent.
• all: Match all/any agents.

Cron

# ┌───────────── minute (0–59)
# │ ┌───────────── hour (0–23)
# │ │ ┌───────────── day of the month (1–31)
# │ │ │ ┌───────────── month (1–12)
# │ │ │ │ ┌───────────── day of the week (0–6) (Sunday to Saturday)
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ │
  0 * * * *

Shortcut	Description	Equivalent
@every Duration	e.g., @every 5m
@yearly (or @annually)	Run once a year at midnight of 1 January	0 0 1 1 *
@monthly	Run once a month at midnight of the first day of the month	0 0 1 * *
@weekly	Run once a week at midnight on Sunday	0 0 * * 0
@daily (or @midnight)	Run once a day at midnight	0 0 * * *
@hourly	Run once an hour at the beginning of the hour	0 * * * *

Duration

Valid time units are s, m, h, d, w, y. For example:

• 1m15s
• 1h5m
• 23h
• 1d8h
• 1w6d8h
• 19w0d8h

Size

Sizes are strings with a unit suffix, e.g., 100, 100b, 10mb. Valid size units are kb, mb, gb, tb.

Icon

One of the icons in the flanksource-icons project.

e.g.

• kubernetes
• Kubernetes::Pod
• argo
• aws-ebs-volume

Match Pattern

Pattern matching supports the following operations:

• * - Match anything
• Added,Deleted - Match either Added or Deleted
• Added*: Match anything starting with Added.
• *Terminated: Match anything ending with Terminated.
• !PodCrashLooping: Match everything except PodCrashLooping.