# Simple Chef Client Status Dashboard / HUD

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [December 12, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062 "2014-12-12T06:29:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![William\_Jimenez](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/william_jimenez/32/181_2.png) [@William\_Jimenez](https://discourse.chef.io/u/William_Jimenez)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062/1 "2014-12-12T06:29:13Z")

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Hi Chefs,  
I'm looking a simple status dashboard / heads up display for chef clients  
for quick visibility into when they last had a chef run, if there were any  
errors, etc. I found this one, but I've been having trouble getting it to  
run correctly and it doesn't seem to be under active dev.

[https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard](https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard)

Was curious if anyone knows of something out there along these lines.

Thanks,  
William

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**Author:** ![Mukta\_A](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/mukta_a/32/194_2.png) [@Mukta\_A](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Mukta_A)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 5:57am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062/2 "2014-12-16T05:57:10Z")

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I was curious to read replies on this thread!  
I am also looking for such a dashboard. Would be even great to have a UI  
which can help trigger chef-client runs. (Basically invoke a knife ssh  
command on a UI button click).

On 12 December 2014 at 11:59, William Jimenez [william.jimenez@itsoninc.com](mailto:william.jimenez@itsoninc.com)  
wrote:

> Hi Chefs,  
> I'm looking a simple status dashboard / heads up display for chef clients  
> for quick visibility into when they last had a chef run, if there were any  
> errors, etc. I found this one, but I've been having trouble getting it to  
> run correctly and it doesn't seem to be under active dev.
> 
> [https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard](https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard)
> 
> Was curious if anyone knows of something out there along these lines.
> 
> Thanks,  
> William

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**Author:** ![Taras\_Klym](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Taras\_Klym](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Taras_Klym)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062/3 "2014-12-16T07:58:17Z")

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I am using reporting module which can be installed with Chef 12. And it has exactly that functionality. [https://docs.chef.io/reporting.html](https://docs.chef.io/reporting.html)

Or you could use "knife-reporting runs list"  
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— Оригінальне повідомлення —  
Від кого: “Mukta A” [amukta@gmail.com](mailto:amukta@gmail.com)  
Дата: 16 грудня 2014, 07:57:50

I was curious to read replies on this thread! I am also looking for such a dashboard. Would be even great to have a UI which can help trigger chef-client runs. (Basically invoke a knife ssh command on a UI button click).  
On 12 December 2014 at 11:59, William Jimenez \< [william.jimenez@itsoninc.com](mailto:william.jimenez@itsoninc.com) \> wrote: Hi Chefs, I’m looking a simple status dashboard / heads up display for chef clients for quick visibility into when they last had a chef run, if there were any errors, etc. I found this one, but I’ve been having trouble getting it to run correctly and it doesn’t seem to be under active dev.  
[https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard](https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard)

Was curious if anyone knows of something out there along these lines.  
Thanks, William

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**Author:** ![Ranjib](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/ranjib/32/1040_2.png) [@Ranjib](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Ranjib)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2014, 1:20pm UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/simple-chef-client-status-dashboard-hud/6062/4 "2014-12-16T13:20:25Z")

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If you are using any monitoring system, you can publish chef run details  
their and build the dashboard as part of the monitoring solution. Statsd /  
graphite are popular. Chef report/exception handlers can do the plumbing  
for you. We use datadog for monitoring, and our chef run dashboard resides  
there.  
Chef now has reporting module as well(paid version), which does same (lot  
more actually) thing  
On Dec 11, 2014 10:29 PM, "William Jimenez" [william.jimenez@itsoninc.com](mailto:william.jimenez@itsoninc.com)  
wrote:

> Hi Chefs,  
> I'm looking a simple status dashboard / heads up display for chef clients  
> for quick visibility into when they last had a chef run, if there were any  
> errors, etc. I found this one, but I've been having trouble getting it to  
> run correctly and it doesn't seem to be under active dev.
> 
> [https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard](https://github.com/erikh/chef-dashboard)
> 
> Was curious if anyone knows of something out there along these lines.
> 
> Thanks,  
> William