Tools to help you interpret Puppet infrastructure metrics 📍

Learn about metrics and tools that can help you collect and visualize performance metrics for Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and catalog compilation.

Version and installation information

Puppet version: 5.0 and later
Component and version: Puppet Server, PuppetDB, and PostgreSQL
OS: Any
Installation type: Any

Solution

Puppet Server and PuppetDB metrics

• Learn more about Puppet Server metrics and PuppetDB metrics in our documentation.

Puppet metrics dashboard

• Set up the Puppet metrics dashboard to gather and review metrics. Learn more about the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard module.

• Toubleshoot a performance issue using the Puppet metrics dashboard

Puppet metrics collector

The Puppet metrics collector queries the metrics from Puppet components and stores them on disk for later analysis. The JSON files generated can be reviewed or imported into the Puppet metrics dashboard.

Learn more about the Puppet metrics collector.

Puppet metrics viewer

Import Puppet metrics collector files for short term analysis using containers with the Puppet metrics viewer.

Puppet Profile Parser

The Puppet Profile Parser allows visualization of catalog compilation times. Learn how to set up and use the tool.