CHEF-DEPLOYMENT-MONITOR

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Chef Deployment Monitor has one executable:

  • chef-logmon (this will be activated on all frontend servers)

CHEF-LOGMON:

The logmon tool will run on every frontend server within your HA environment or on the
chefserver in a more basic environment and is responsible for the following tasks:

  • Tail your NGINX log and record all POST/PUTS/DELETES

CONFIGURATION:

In order to execute both tools, you will need the following configuration settings:

log_dir        "/var/log/chef-monitor"
pid_dir        "/var/run/chef-monitor"
mon_file       "/var/log/opscode/nginx/access.log"

EXECUTION:

After these settings, you should be able to run the tools:
On all your frontend servers: 

chef-logmon run -- -C /opt/chef-monitor/config.rb     #<run interactive>
chef-logmon start -- -C /opt/chef-monitor/config.rb   #<run as service>
chef-logmon stop                                      #<stop service>

Credits

This repo is based on the initial work of @schubergphilis in schubergphilis/chef-monitor-gem. Thanks a lot to him!