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I used to check the cockpit web interface every once in a while, but I've tried to enable unattended updates today. It doesn't actually seem to work, but I planned on switching to Nix anyway.
I don't use Cockpit, I just followed the Debian wiki guide to enabling unattended upgrades. As fast as I remember you have to apt install something and change a few lines in the config file.
It's also good to have SMTP set up, so your server will notify you when something happens, you can configure what exactly.