Sending metrics from Puppet to Librato

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

puppet.changed_resources
puppet.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 librato-metrics gem on your Puppet master

   $ sudo gem install librato-metrics
   

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

3. Update the librato_email and librato_key variables in the librato.yaml file with your Librato account email and API key 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 = librato
   pluginsync = true
   [agent]
   report = true
   pluginsync = true
   

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