---
title: "Update activity for the persistent progress UI"
method: GET
path: "/api/system/updateActivity"
tags: ["system"]
---

# Update activity for the persistent progress UI

`GET /api/system/updateActivity`

## Request

- Base URL: `/` (relative, and the document was published on a file host, not at the API’s origin)
- URL: `/api/system/updateActivity`
- Auth: none declared

Reports whether an FPP software or OS update is currently running, derived from logs/fpp_system_upgrades.log markers plus worker process liveness, so any browser (including one opened mid-update or after a refresh) can show the live progress. Pass `?logTail=1&lines=200` to include the run's log.

## Response `200`

Update activity

- object

## Changes

- **2026-10-10** `cf10e8851ff9`: 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Operation history](https://skmtc.dev/falconchristmas/apis/fpp-api/changes/api/system/updateActivity/get.md)

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