Puppet Explorer 1.3.0

[Erik Dalén]

A new release of Puppet Explorer is out! This release adds support for PuppetDB 2.2, but also drops support for previous PuppetDB releases (once the v4 API stabilizes it will be easier to keep compatibility).

The major new feature is support for structured facts, for example you can search for system_uptime.days>100 if you are using Facter 2.2.

You can now also subquery the node fields using the #node syntax, for example #node.catalog-environment=production

To query for nodes matching timestamps you can use an @ sign in front of a string to have it parsed by timespec instead of typing a ISO timestamp by hand. For example: #node.report-timestamp<@"now - 2 hours"

It also has support for customisable panels in the dashboard, define your own queries and show how many nodes are matching.

A pre built tar.gz as well as RPM and DEB packages are available at: https://github.com/spotify/puppetexplorer/releases

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Erik Dalén

[PierreR]

Out of curiosity, how does it compare with puppet dashboard ?

Is Puppet Dashboard really EOL ?

What's currently the best reporting open source solution for Puppet ?

Cheers

[Spencer Krum]

Puppet Explorer and PuppetBoard are both superior to the Puppet Dashboard. Puppet dashboard is in community support, but this list is full of people having trouble installing it. I would highly recommend using one of the other tools.

What the Puppet Dashboard does do that the other tools do not do is ENC functionality. I think there is a space for an open source lightweight ENC to be written for organizations to use and hack on.

Thanks,
Spencer

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[Erik Dalén]

Yeah, if there was a commonly accepted ENC tool I could probably add support for that in Puppet Explorer. But it seems that more and more people just move classification to hiera instead, and most hiera backends don't have any API to use from a web UI.

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[John Warburton]

On Saturday, September 20, 2014, Spencer Krum <krum.s...@gmail.com> wrote:

Puppet Explorer and PuppetBoard are both superior to the Puppet Dashboard. Puppet 

Do any of these also give the ability to spit out the current state as csv that the dashboard does? We use it extensively for reporting

Thanks

John 

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