[chef] Re: Graphing Chef metrics in graphite

[Adam Jacob < >]

I would probably start with a report handler that (somewhat smartly)
puts the metrics you care about into Graphite.

Things like which resources changed, time of converge (both start/end
and total elapsed,) etc. would all be easy.

Adam

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Dan Adams 
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 wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm using Chef Server across a number of environments. I'm also using
> Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/) to graph a number of metrics for
> various items from infrastructure up to app and service level.
>
> Since I'm sure I'm not the only one using both Chef and Graphite, I wanted
> to get a feel for what (and how) others were graphing Chef metrics into
> Graphite.
>
> I'd be interested in hearing what metrics you'd found most useful in
> building up Chef dashboards in Graphite, and how you went about gathering
> the metrics (eg API, log scraping etc)
>
> Cheers
>
> Dan



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