We still use Puppet Dasboard (with PuppetDB) to get a quick overview of the state of nodes and the logs of their Puppet runs. Not very fancy and a little hard to search, but it works well as a read-only dashboard.
Furthermore we use the ELK-stack (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana) (See http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/), which is essentially an open-source alternative to Splunk, to ship all logs from each host via a queue to a central server, where they're normalized, processed and stored in Elasticsearch. I've created several dashboards in Kibana that query that data to graph metrics and show anomalies, not just for Puppet runs. I'd prefer to add some active alerting to this pipeline, but have yet to figure that out. There are many ways to do this, but this works pretty well for us. Regards, Martijn Op dinsdag 26 augustus 2014 19:34:51 UTC+2 schreef Mike Reed: > > Hello all, > > I've recently been looking into various methods for configuring meaningful > logging from my puppet 3.6 master/agent nodes. I've typically gone the > route of grep'ing through syslog on both master/agents and I'd like > something a little more robust and user friendly for other who may not be > hip on going through hundreds of lines of syslog information in addition to > a simpler design. > > I've recently been playing with an agent's puppet.conf and simply trying > to set the logdir using this with no success at all (permissions have been > changed to allow puppet to write to that directory): > [agent] > logdir= /var/log/puppet > > I've also tested syslog facility configurations but after some time, it > seemed like having to modify multiple configuration files to get puppet > logging consistent, seems a bit bulky to me. > > I suppose I have two questions: > > 1. Is there a simple way to push messages to a file other than > /var/log/syslog on an Ubuntu machine? > 2. Is there a preferred way in the community by which people aggregate > logs to make troubleshooting nodes issues easier to manage? > > Thank you all for your time in advance. > > Cheers, > > Mike > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-users/59be2841-9cf1-49cd-ac2d-d219db0e2c38%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
