Getting ready

You will need to install the RRD tools and libraries for Ruby on your system. For Ubuntu, run the following command:

# apt-get install rrdtool librrd-ruby

How to do it…

Add the rrdgraph report type to your puppet.conf as follows:

reports = store,rrdgraph

How it works…

For each run, Puppet will record data in the client's RRD directory (the default is /var/lib/puppet/rrd/<clientname>). It will create graphs in a PNG format for events, resources, and retrieval time, while the raw data is available to you in the .rrd files if you want to process it further using third-party RRD tools.

There's more…

For more detailed reporting and graphing, you can use Puppet Dashboard.

See also