Manage the installation and configuration of metrics dashboards using the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard module for Puppet Enterprise 2016.4 to 2019.1

Configure Grafana, Telegraf, and InfluxDB to use metrics from Puppet’s services using Site Reliability Engineer Erik Hansen’s puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard module. You can then view Puppet Server performance, heap memory and uptime, and submission time for catalogs, facts, and reports to PuppetDB, and more.

PE version: 2016.4 to 2019.1

Solution

Use the module to get metrics using any or all of these methods:

• Use archive files from the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_collector module
• Use Puppet Server's built-in graphite support
• Use Telegraf to poll Puppet's metrics endpoints

Get the module

Learn more about sending metrics from the module to Support.

Learn more about the puppetlabs-puppet_metrics_dashboard module from our blog.