Using my Chef Exception & Reporting Handler for Splunk Storm you can easily search for and report on your chef-client runs.
include_recipe 'chef_handler' gem_package('chef-handler-splunkstorm'){action :nothing}.run_action(:install) chef_handler 'Chef::Handler::SplunkStorm' do action :enable arguments ['ACCESS_TOKEN', 'PROJECT_ID'] source File.join(Gem.all_load_paths.grep(/chef-handler-splunkstorm/).first, 'chef', 'handler', 'splunkstorm.rb') end
A search for * should result in events like these:
The following dashboard shows the Average chef-client Elapsed Time by Host:
Here's the assocaited search:
* | spath path=elapsed_time output=elapsed_time | timechart span="15m" avg(elapsed_time) by host