A Puppet report plugin which reports to ElasticSearch and optimized for use with Kibana 4.
Just add the module to your modulepath
Add the following to agent nodes puppet.conf file:
[agent]
report = true
reports = store,log,elasticsearch
You can of course use the main or user sections as applicable.
Create elasticsearch.yaml config file in your puppet config dir (on agent nodes):
---
# default is http://localhost:9200/
:elasticsearch_url: http://elasticsearch:9200/
:index: puppet-%{%Y.%m.%d}
:document_type: puppet_report
Note the : at the start of the Yaml keys. Just as with hiera config file, it is significant.
The index format will interpolate ruby time format within the %{} stanza. Note this contrasts with Logstash which uses JodaTime format strings. E.g. Logstash format would be YYYY.MM.DD where as the equivalent ruby format string is %Y.%m.%d.
Why did I use Ruby format? mainly because i'm lazy.
It is highly recommended you use the index template in report_index_template.json file. You can load it to ElasticSearch using curl:
curl -XPUT http://elasticsearch:9200/_template/puppet -d @report_index_template.json
The template will provide the appropriate document mapping which makes sure your index isn't horribly slow due to insane number of fields from resource_status section of the report.
If you want to fix something, add a feature or whatever, open an issue and/or a pull request.