---
title: Telegraf Documentation
description: Telegraf plugin for collecting metrics from Puppet Agent
url: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1/input-plugins/puppetagent/
estimated_tokens: 1226
product: Telegraf
version: v1
---

-   Telegraf v0.2.0+

# Puppet Agent Input Plugin

This plugin gathers metrics of a [Puppet agent](https://www.puppet.com/) by parsing variables from the local last-run-summary file.

**Introduced in:** Telegraf v0.2.0 **Tags:** system **OS support:** all

## Global configuration options

Plugins support additional global and plugin configuration settings for tasks such as modifying metrics, tags, and fields, creating aliases, and configuring plugin ordering. See [CONFIGURATION.md](/telegraf/v1/configuration/#plugins) for more details.

## Configuration

```toml
# Reads last_run_summary.yaml file and converts to measurements
[[inputs.puppetagent]]
  ## Location of puppet last run summary file
  location = "/var/lib/puppet/state/last_run_summary.yaml"
```

## Metrics

### PuppetAgent int64 measurements

Meta:

-   units: int64
-   tags: \`\`

Measurement names:

-   puppetagent\_changes\_total
-   puppetagent\_events\_failure
-   puppetagent\_events\_total
-   puppetagent\_events\_success
-   puppetagent\_resources\_changed
-   puppetagent\_resources\_corrective\_change
-   puppetagent\_resources\_failed
-   puppetagent\_resources\_failedtorestart
-   puppetagent\_resources\_outofsync
-   puppetagent\_resources\_restarted
-   puppetagent\_resources\_scheduled
-   puppetagent\_resources\_skipped
-   puppetagent\_resources\_total
-   puppetagent\_time\_service
-   puppetagent\_time\_lastrun
-   puppetagent\_version\_config

### PuppetAgent float64 measurements

Meta:

-   units: float64
-   tags: \`\`

Measurement names:

-   puppetagent\_time\_anchor
-   puppetagent\_time\_catalogapplication
-   puppetagent\_time\_configretrieval
-   puppetagent\_time\_convertcatalog
-   puppetagent\_time\_cron
-   puppetagent\_time\_exec
-   puppetagent\_time\_factgeneration
-   puppetagent\_time\_file
-   puppetagent\_time\_filebucket
-   puppetagent\_time\_group
-   puppetagent\_time\_lastrun
-   puppetagent\_time\_noderetrieval
-   puppetagent\_time\_notify
-   puppetagent\_time\_package
-   puppetagent\_time\_pluginsync
-   puppetagent\_time\_schedule
-   puppetagent\_time\_sshauthorizedkey
-   puppetagent\_time\_total
-   puppetagent\_time\_transactionevaluation
-   puppetagent\_time\_user
-   puppetagent\_version\_config

### PuppetAgent string measurements

Meta:

-   units: string
-   tags: \`\`

Measurement names:

-   puppetagent\_version\_puppet

## Example Output

```text
puppetagent,location=last_run_summary.yaml changes_total=0i,events_failure=0i,events_noop=0i,events_success=0i,events_total=0i,resources_changed=0i,resources_correctivechange=0i,resources_failed=0i,resources_failedtorestart=0i,resources_outofsync=0i,resources_restarted=0i,resources_scheduled=0i,resources_skipped=0i,resources_total=109i,time_anchor=0.000555,time_catalogapplication=0.010555,time_configretrieval=4.75567007064819,time_convertcatalog=1.3,time_cron=0.000584,time_exec=0.508123,time_factgeneration=0.34,time_file=0.441472,time_filebucket=0.000353,time_group=0,time_lastrun=1444936531i,time_noderetrieval=1.235,time_notify=0.00035,time_package=1.325788,time_pluginsync=0.325788,time_schedule=0.001123,time_service=1.807795,time_sshauthorizedkey=0.000764,time_total=8.85354707064819,time_transactionevaluation=4.69765,time_user=0.004331,version_configstring="environment:d6018ce",version_puppet="3.7.5" 1747757240432097335
```

#### Related

-   [Configure plugins](/telegraf/v1/configure_plugins/)
-   [Puppet Agent Plugin Source](https://github.com/influxdata/telegraf/tree/v1.38.4/plugins/inputs/puppetagent/README.md)