[chef] Monitoring knife-lastrun?

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Hi,

I want to monitor the output of knife-lastrun (to check execution time + 
failed runs).

Is anyone of you already doing this (we're using Zabbix, but I would say this 
fact doesn't matter..).

Do you see any other way than:
*) give the client on our monitoring station chef admin privileges to 
retrieve the values via knife (<- bad idea..)
*) modify the knife-lastrun gem to write stats into a local file (however I 
have no clue, how to do this - I'm not a ruby guy :().
*) or does knife-lastrun already write stats to a local file? However the 
code looks like it only writes to log and saves to the node.

Would be nice, if someone could help me!

Yours
Steffen