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

[Mark Mzyk < >]

The report handler that supplies the data from the client run to the Chef server reporting add on is open source, so it could be used and/or built off of, if you didn't want to use the pre-built Chef add ons.

It's here in the client: https://github.com/opscode/chef/blob/master/lib/chef/resource_reporter.rb

- Mark Mzyk

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" style="color:#737F92 !important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none !important;">Steffen Gebert

September 17, 2014 at 2:03 AM

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

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" style="color:#737F92 !important;padding-right:6px;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none !important;">Augie Schwer

September 16, 2014 at 8:33 PM

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!

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