openSUSE admin

Our monitoring collects Zypper metrics such as the needs-rebooting status and pending updates using a zypper-metrics timer. This timer does not run as root, because we already refresh as part of os-update daily, and do not needs fully accurate pending updates numbers.

It seems this no longer works on Tumbleweed however, even after a root initiated zypper refresh:

discourse01 (discourse):~ # zypper ref
Repository 'darix:apps' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE:infrastructure' is up to date.
Repository 'openSUSE:infrastructure:discourse' is up to date.
Repository 'repo-oss' is up to date.
Repository 'repo-update' is up to date.
All repositories have been refreshed.

discourse01 (discourse):~ # sudo -u monitor zypper --no-refresh lu
Error building the cache:
[darix:apps|http://download-prg.infra.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/darix:/apps/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Can't create /var/cache/zypp/raw/darix:apps

Warning: The metadata cache needs to be built for the 'darix:apps' repository. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to do this.
Warning: Skipping repository 'darix:apps' because of the above error.
Error building the cache:
[openSUSE:infrastructure|http://download-prg.infra.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/infrastructure/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Can't create /var/cache/zypp/raw/openSUSE:infrastructure

Warning: The metadata cache needs to be built for the 'openSUSE:infrastructure' repository. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to do this.
Warning: Skipping repository 'openSUSE:infrastructure' because of the above error.
Error building the cache:
[openSUSE:infrastructure:discourse|http://download-prg.infra.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/infrastructure:/discourse/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Can't create /var/cache/zypp/raw/openSUSE:infrastructure:discourse

Warning: The metadata cache needs to be built for the 'openSUSE:infrastructure:discourse' repository. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to do this.
Warning: Skipping repository 'openSUSE:infrastructure:discourse' because of the above error.
Error building the cache:
[repo-oss|http://download-prg.infra.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Can't create /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-oss

Warning: The metadata cache needs to be built for the 'repo-oss' repository. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to do this.
Warning: Skipping repository 'repo-oss' because of the above error.
Error building the cache:
[repo-update|http://download-prg.infra.opensuse.org/update/tumbleweed/] Valid metadata not found at specified URL
History:
 - Can't create /var/cache/zypp/raw/repo-update

Warning: The metadata cache needs to be built for the 'repo-update' repository. You can run 'zypper refresh' as root to do this.
Warning: Skipping repository 'repo-update' because of the above error.
Some of the repositories have not been refreshed because of an error.
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
No updates found.