Skip to Main Content
Puppet Reporting and Monitoring
book

Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

by Michael Duffy
June 2014
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
186 pages
4h 31m
English
Packt Publishing
Content preview from Puppet Reporting and Monitoring

Chapter 8. Creating Your Own Custom Dashboard

Over the past few chapters, we've looked at the many ways in which you can both gather and present data from Puppet. We have also created custom alerts and applications for our users to gather their own information with. But we're still reliant on the dashboards that we looked at in Chapter 2, Viewing Data in Dashboards. That's not to say that they aren't any good, but the trouble with a pre-made solution is that it might not do exactly what you'd like.

In this chapter, we're going to create our own dashboard using PuppetDB as the data source and combine it with an open source framework for creating dashboards called Dashing. We're going to learn the following topics:

  • What Dashing is and what it can ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation

Puppet: Mastering Infrastructure Automation

Felix Frank, Martin Alfke, Alessandro Franceschi, Jaime Soriano Pastor, Thomas Uphillis

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781783981427Supplemental Content