Chef v11 opensource - recipe timing data

Chef Infra (archive)
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Hi,

Chef open source server v11.1.7
chef-client v12.5.1

When I run chef-client on a node to download/synchronize/run the latest recipe from the chef-server, I know that at the end of the chef-client run, I get timing data – for example “Chef Client finished, 31/31 resources updated in 16 minutes 02 seconds”

Is it possible to get timing data on a per-resource level? My intention is to find out which resources/recipes in the cookbook take the largest amount of time (& do something about it where possible) so that the overall cookbook execution time is reduced as much as possible.

Thanks
Aravind

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There are some handlers like https://github.com/joemiller/chef-handler-profiler or you can upgrade to Chef Server 12 and buy a license to the Chef Reporting features which provider that kind of data.

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Thank you coderanger, I have now successfully implemented the above.

Shame that it needs me to run it in Debug mode chef-client -l debug - Is there any way do you know of making this appear in default mode (Error?) or even Info mode?