A plugin for Chef::Knife which displays node metadata about the last chef run.
Supply a node name to get metrics from the last chef run
% knife node lastrun jgoulah.vm.mydomain.com
Status success
Elapsed Time 74.198614
Start Time 2012-02-22 00:39:04 +0000
End Time 2012-02-22 00:40:18 +0000
Recipe Action Resource Type Resource
bigdata::default run bash check for bashrc
Backtrace none
Exception none
Formatted Exception none
knife-lastrun is available on rubygems.org - if you have that source in your gemrc, you can simply use:
gem install knife-lastrun
in /etc/chef/client.rb
require "lastrun_update"
handler = LastRunUpdateHandler.new
report_handlers << handler
exception_handlers << handler