Long running chef-client executions

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  • I'm using a open-source chef server managing about 150 nodes.
  • Analytics/Reporting module is not activated in the chef server due to resource constraints.
  • "chef-client" is running on all the nodes every 30 minutes

How can I find, how much time each chef-client run is taking to complete? I'm trying to find the nodes that are slowest in completing their chef-client runs

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automationchef-infrachef-recipedevops
docs.chef.io/handlers.html#id3 - Tensibai

1 Answers

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Chef Server doesn't store this information. You'll need to manage it yourself, possibly using a handler as linked above in the comments. A simple option would be to make a handler which stores the duration of the last run as a node attribute, but the sky is the limit. If you want something to help debug long runs once you find them, check out my poise-profiler cookbook.