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Mastering Puppet 5

You're reading from   Mastering Puppet 5 Optimize enterprise-grade environment performance with Puppet

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831864
Length 292 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Jason Southgate Jason Southgate
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Preface 1. Authoring Modules FREE CHAPTER 2. Roles and Profiles 3. Extending Puppet 4. Hiera 5 5. Managing Code 6. Workflow 7. Continuous Integration 8. Extending Puppet with Tasks and Discovery 9. Exported Resources 10. Application Orchestration 11. Scaling Puppet 12. Troubleshooting and Profiling 13. Other Books You May Enjoy

Logging

Logging is one of the most useful forms of troubleshooting, if actively monitored. We can often identify problems in our infrastructure before they become problems that users report. By understanding the logging available to Puppet, you will know where to look for indicators of system degradation. In this section, we'll explore the log files available to Puppet and its sub components, and we will configure the log level in the Puppetserver.

The logback.xml file

Each component that we'll be logging on, other than the Puppet agent, will use Logback. Although this isn't a book on logback, we'll look at a few existing sections of logback.xml and some common settings that we can alter.

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