[chef] Re: Best practice for measuring and monitoring chef-client runs?

[Steffen Gebert < >]

Jumping into the "we do.." postings: We send chef-client statistics to
zabbix using a report handler:
- success
- elapsed_time
- start_time
- end_time
- all_resources_num
- updated_resource num

I think that should be pretty easy to adapt to whatever monitoring
system you use.

Yours
Steffen

Links:
https://github.com/TYPO3-cookbooks/zabbix-custom-checks/blob/master/recipes/chef-client.rb
https://github.com/TYPO3-cookbooks/zabbix-custom-checks/blob/master/templates/default/chef-client/chef-client-handler.rb


On 17/09/14 02:33, Augie Schwer wrote:
> What are people using to monitor and measure their chef-client runs?
> 
> I would like to monitor for when chef-client runs fail on a node.
> 
> It would be nice to measure chef-client run times.
> 
> Is it safe to assume people are using handlers for both of these? What are
> some popular ways to accomplish these goals? Thanks!
> 
>