Puppet and StatHat

I’ve just released a Puppet report processor for sending metrics to StatHat. The report sends each of the metrics to StatHat, for example creating:

puppet.fqdn.changed_resources
puppet.fqdn.config_retrieval_time
...

You can find the code on GitHub and a module on the Forge.

There are some simple installation instructions:

1. Install the stathat gem on your Puppet master

   $ sudo gem install stathat
   

2. Install puppet-stathat as a module in your Puppet master’s module path.

3. Update the stathat_email variable in the stathat.yaml file with your StatHat account email and copy the file to /etc/puppet/. An example file is included.

4. Enable pluginsync and reports on your master and clients in puppet.conf

   [master]
   report = true
   reports = stathat
   pluginsync = true
   [agent]
   report = true
   pluginsync = true
   

5. Run the Puppet client and sync the report as a plugin.