Chef Sensu Handler

Chef Sensu Handler is an OpsCode Chef exception handler for notifying people when a Chef run fails via Sensu. This will create and resolve Sensu alerts for a node in which the chef-run fails. This leverages the Sensu client's socket input to create/resolve checks.

Installation

gem install chef-sensu-handler

Usage

Append the following to your Chef client configs, usually at /etc/chef/client.rb. The default return status is a warning. You can change this to an error in the config if you prefer. If you would like the alerts to automatically resolve themselves on a successful run set the report_handlers.

# Notify Sensu when a Chef run fails
require "chef-sensu-handler"

report_handlers << SensuHandler.new         # Auto-resolve alerts
exception_handlers << SensuHandler.new      # Creates a warning

# or return status critical
# exception_handlers << SensuHandler.new(:critical) # Sets return status to critical

Alternatively, you can use the LWRP (available @ http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks/chef_handler)

Contributing

1. Fork it
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Added some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request