Get detailed information on what was applied to a node by jobs and plans in Puppet Enterprise

When you run Puppet in the command line, you get detailed output about what was applied to each node. When you run a job or plan in the console, you don’t get as much detailed output. However, you can get the same detailed information on jobs and plans by querying PuppetDB.

Version and installation information

PE version: All supported

This solution requires installing the jq utility. We cannot provide support for third-party software.

Solution

No matter how the catalog is applied, resources and events are stored in PuppetDB.

For example, to get information about a node whose most recent report contains changes, run the following on the PuppetDB node (the primary server, unless your PuppetDB is on an external node):

puppet query 'reports[resources] { latest_report? = true and certname = "<CERTNAME>" and status = "changed"} ' | jq '.[].resources.data[] | select(.corrective_change == true)'