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Learn the check command

Quickly check your stack for end-of-life (EOL) statuses. The geol check command scans products from your .geol.yaml and reports support status and EOL dates.

Get help for check​

Use geol help check to display help and available options for the check command.

geol help check

Initialize a check file​

Run the command to create a template .geol.yaml in the current directory:

geol check init

Edit the generated .geol.yaml to list the products you want to monitor.

Minimal example .geol.yaml (created by geol check init):

stack:
  - name: ubuntu
    version: "25.10"
    id_eol: ubuntu

  - name: java temurin
    version: "21"
    id_eol: eclipse-temurin
    
- name: non-existent-product
    version: "1.0"
    id_eol: non-existent-product
    skip: true

Statuses and warnings​

Run the check to view statuses and warnings:

geol check

Use this flag to make geol check return a non-zero exit code when any product is past its EOL.

geol check --strict

Run the following command to print the exit status (a non-zero value indicates an error):

echo $?