Puppet collector

Monitor status of Puppet Server and Puppet DB.

Following charts are drawn:

1. JVM Heap

   • committed (allocated from OS)
   • used (actual use)

2. JVM Non-Heap

   • committed (allocated from OS)
   • used (actual use)

3. CPU Usage

   • execution
   • GC (taken by garbage collection)

4. File Descriptors

   • max
   • used

Configuration

Edit the python.d/puppet.conf configuration file using edit-config from the Netdata config directory, which is typically at /etc/netdata.

cd /etc/netdata   # Replace this path with your Netdata config directory, if different
sudo ./edit-config python.d/puppet.conf

puppetdb:
    url: 'https://fqdn.example.com:8081'
    tls_cert_file: /path/to/client.crt
    tls_key_file: /path/to/client.key
    autodetection_retry: 1

puppetserver:
    url: 'https://fqdn.example.com:8140'
    autodetection_retry: 1

When no configuration is given, module uses https://fqdn.example.com:8140.

notes

• Exact Fully Qualified Domain Name of the node should be used.
• Usually Puppet Server/DB startup time is VERY long. So, there should be quite reasonable retry count.
• Secure PuppetDB config may require client certificate. Not applies to default PuppetDB configuration though.

Troubleshooting

To troubleshoot issues with the puppet module, run the python.d.plugin with the debug option enabled. The output will give you the output of the data collection job or error messages on why the collector isn't working.

First, navigate to your plugins directory, usually they are located under /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/. If that's not the case on your system, open netdata.conf and look for the setting plugins directory. Once you're in the plugin's directory, switch to the netdata user.

cd /usr/libexec/netdata/plugins.d/
sudo su -s /bin/bash netdata

Now you can manually run the puppet module in debug mode:

./python.d.plugin puppet debug trace