This is part two of a series that provides tips for advanced Renovate Bot users. It gives valuable tips for writing your own custom managers or custom data sources, explains why and how to self-host a Renovate Bot instance, and how to reduce friction when introducing Renovate to your teams. Originally posted on 2023-09-17, updated … Read more
This is part one of a two-part series that provides tips for advanced Renovate Bot users. Part 1 explains some important, basic Renovate concepts, illustrates how Renovate creates and updates PRs as a flow chart, goes into details about Renovate’s “post-upgrade tasks” feature, and reveals how to effectively diagnose Renovate issues. Originally posted on 2023-09-03, … Read more
Renovate bot (or just Renovate) is a tool that automatically updates third-party dependencies declared in your Git repository via pull requests. This Renovate cheat sheet helps teams who adopt Renovate customize the most common (and useful) configuration options, without having to know the extensive Renovate documentation. Originally posted on 2021-07-25, updated on 2026-08-12. Introduction Renovate … Read more
Renovate bot is a tool that automatically updates software dependencies declared in your Git repository via pull requests. In this Renovate introduction, I explain the benefits of automated dependency updates, how Renovate works, how to operate/run Renovate yourself (if necessary), and how you can configure its behavior for each repository. Originally posted on 2021-07-11, updated … Read more
I present the renovate-log-parser CLI. It efficiently parses large Renovate JSONL logs. It automatically finds errors in CI, reduces token usage in coding agents, and enables humans with a beautiful and efficient web UI to manually inspect errors in Renovate logs.