[chef] How to monitor if chef-client is actually working

[Robert Keng < >]

Hi all,

Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a way to monitor chef-client to make sure it isn't stuck in retries because of some error in some recipe? Does the client actually reply back to the chef-server if its able to apply all recipes and things are happy?

I apologize if this is a really simple question, fairly new to chef...Just I'd rather not have to parse /var/log/chef/client.log for this, thanks!

-Robert