[chef] How to tell when recipes fail?

[Mike Williams < >]

On the Chef web_ui "Status" page, I can see when each node last checked-in 
with the server, but there does not appear to be any indication of failures 
during running of recipes!

What's the recommended way of detecting and reporting on failures?

When chef-client uploads node state to the server, at the end of a run, does 
it persist any information about the success/failure of the run_list?

Should I be registering an exception/report handler?  And if so, has anyone 
written a handler that persists saves the run-reports to a central DB of some 
kind?

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cheers, 
Mike Williams