Population metric names changed in PuppetDB 4.x

[jasonhancock]

Population metric names changed in PuppetDB 4.x

https://docs.puppetlabs.com/puppetdb/4.0/api/metrics/v1/changes-from-puppetdb-v3.html#population-metrics

For example, the following metrics:

puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=num-nodes
puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=num-resources
puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=avg-resources-per-node
puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=pct-resource-dupes

are now, respectively:

puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=num-nodes
puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=num-resources
puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=avg-resources-per-node
puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=pct-resource-dupes

As I'm proxying puppetexplorer with Apache, the addition of a rewrite rule works around this for now:

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=(.*)$  https://%{HTTP_HOST}/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=$1 [R=301,L]

[therin]

I've been scratching my head since yesterday trying to fix this, works mint now, thanks heaps!

[tun0]

"Perfect!"

If it were a real solution instead of a (rather nicely executed, I must admit) work-around, it'd be Perfect! ;-)

[dhs-rec]

Any idea when this is going to be released? The RewriteRule workaround doesn't work for me.

[gbolo]

The rewrite rule works, but should be fixed in the application code to generate the proper http request in the first place. please fix it

[petems]

For anyone using the spotify-puppetexplorer module, @jasonhancock's temp fix can be added to the apache class pretty easily:

Edit: Fixed based on @dhs-rec's comment! 😄

class {'::puppetexplorer':
  vhost_options => {
    rewrites  => [ { rewrite_rule => ['^/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=(.*)$  https://%{HTTP_HOST}/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=$1 [R=301,L]'] } ] }
  }
}

[dhs-rec]

Final closing } is missing.

However, still doesn't work for me. I still get messages like this one when reloading the dashboard page:

Could not fetch metric pct-resource-dupes from PuppetDB

[gbolo]

I can confirm that the workaround does work, even in hiera:

puppetexplorer::vhost_options:
  rewrites:
    - rewrite_rule:
      - '^/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.query.population:type=default,name=(.*)$  https://%%{}{HTTP_HOST}/api/metrics/v1/mbeans/puppetlabs.puppetdb.population:name=$1 [R=301,L]'

[dhs-rec]

Any news on the issue? Puppetexplorer is still unusable for me.

[dhs-rec]

Too sad this thing doesn't get officially released.

[dhs-rec]

Giving up...

[edrude]

Thanks for sharing this fix jasonhancock. Worked like a charm for me.

[Calixx]

Thanks for the fix - after an additional
sudo setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect on
it works like a charm for me.

[shaunrampersad]

This had me puzzled for a while. The Rewrite rule was not working.
I disabled SSL from my config, and the Rewrite has https.

NB: This is only if you are arent using SSL

Change

 https://%{HTTP_HOST}

To

 http://%{HTTP_HOST}

Works now!

[irfanypatel]

@shaunrampersad changing the rewrite rule to the following would work in both scenarios:

%{REQUEST_SCHEME}://%{HTTP_HOST}