Viewing and managing Puppet Server metrics

Puppet Server can provide performance and status metrics to external services for monitoring server health and performance over time.

You can retrieve, track, and visualize Puppet Server metrics with:

• The Puppet Report Viewer app for Splunk. You'll need the splunk_hec and pe_event_forwarding modules along with the app. For information about this option, refer to these blog posts:
  • PE Metrics in Splunk: Puppet Report Viewer 3.1
  • Introducing Puppet and Splunk integrations to improve reporting speed and scale
• The puppet_operational_dashboards module (which you can use along with the puppet_metrics_collector module that is already bundle with PE).
• Customizable, networked Graphite and Grafana instances. While the grafanadash and puppet-graphite modules are not Puppet-supported modules (they are provided for testing and demonstration purposes only), you can learn about these options in Getting started with Graphite and Available Graphite metrics.
• The Status API and Metrics API endpoints.