nishiki/ansible-role-sensu

Install and configure sensu-go backend and agent

Ansible role: Sensu

Install and configure sensu-go backend and agent

Requirements

• Ansible >= 2.5
• OS
  • Debian Stretch
  • Ubuntu 18.04
  • Ubuntu 16.04
  • Centos 7

Role variables

General

• sensu_repository_system - system for package repository (default: ansible_distribution)
• sensu_repository_release - system release for package repository (default: ansible_distribution_release)

Notice: for debian9 set sensu_repository_system to ubuntu and sensu_repository_release to xenial

Agent

• sensu_agent - enable sensu agent installation (default: yes)
• sensu_agent_user - the user for backend authentification (default: agent)
• sensu_agent_password - the password for backend authentification (default: P@ssw0rd!)
• sensu_agent_plugins - array with the sensu ruby plugins to intall

  - name: sensu-plugins-http
    version: 4.0.0

• sensu_agent_subscriptions - array with the subscriptions name

  - debian
  - mailserver

• sensu_agent_labels - hash with the labels

  region: Europe
  disk_critical: 90
  disk_warning: 75

• sensu_agent_redact - array with the redact keywords

  - supersecret
  - apikey

• sensu_agent_backends - array with the backends url

  - ws://localhost:8081

• sensu_agent_namespace - the namespace for agent (default: default)
• sensu_agent_config - hash with the optional configuration (see sensu configuration)

Backend

• sensu_backend - enable sensu backend installation (default: no)
• sensu_backend_config - hash with the optional configuration (see sensu configuration)
• sensu_assets - array with the asset definitions

  - name: http-binary
    namespace:
      - default
    url: http://host.local
    sha512: XXXX
    filters: []

• sensu_namespaces - array with the namespace definitions

  - name: production
    state: present

• sensu_checks - array with the check definitions

  - name: load
    namespace:
      - default
    labels:
      criticity: high
    command: /usr/bin/load -w 2 -c 5
    handlers:
      - mailer
    subscriptions:
      - linux
    interval: 120
    options:
      ttl: 300

• sensu_mutators - array with the mutator definitions

  - name: convert2csv
    namespace:
      - default
    command: /usr/local/bin/convert_to_csv
    options:
      timeout: 10

• sensu_handlers - array with the handler definitions

  - name: mailer
    namespace:
      - default
    type: pipe
    command: /usr/local/bin/sensu-email-handler -t sensu@host.local
    filters:
      - is_incident
    options:
      timeout: 10

• sensu_hooks - array with the hook definitions

  - name: restart-apache
    namespace:
      - default
    command: /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
    timeout: 10

• sensu_filters - array with the filter definitions

  - name: max_occurences
    namespace:
      - default
    action: allow
    expressions:
    runtime_assets: []
    state: present

• sensu_users - array with the user definitions

  - name: john
    groups:
      - dev
    password: secret
    state: present

• sensu_cluster_roles - array with the cluster role definitions

  - name: dev
    rules:
      - verbs:
          - get
          - list
        resources:
          - '*'
    state: present

• sensu_api_url - url of sensu api (default: http://127.0.0.1:8080)
• sensu_api_user - user for sensu api (default: admin)
• sensu_api_password - password for sensu api (default: P@ssw0rd!)

How to use

Agent

- hosts: webserver
  roles:
    - sensu
  vars:
    sensu_agent_subscriptions:
      - debian
      - webserver
    sensu_agent_labels:
      datacenter: paris
      disk_warning: 30
      disk_critical: 50
    sensu_agent_plugins:
      - name: sensu-plugins-disk-checks
        version: 3.1.1

Backend

- hosts: monitoring
  roles:
    - sensu
  vars:
    sensu_backend: yes
    sensu_namespaces:
      - name: production
      - name: dev
    sensu_users:
      - name: johndoe
        password: secret1234
        groups:
          - devops
          - users
    sensu_handlers:
      - name: mail
        command: /usr/local/bin/handler-mailer
        namespaces:
          - production
          - dev
    sensu_filters:
      - name: state_changed
        expressions:
          - event.check.occurrences == 1
        namespaces:
          - production
          - dev
    sensu_checks:
      - name: ping
        command: ping -c 1 127.0.0.1
        subscriptions:
          - linux
        namespaces:
          - production
          - dev
    sensu_cluster_roles:
      - name: superview

Development

Test with molecule and docker

• install docker
• install python3 and python3-pip
• install molecule and dependencies pip3 install molecule 'molecule[docker]' docker ansible-lint testinfra yamllint
• run molecule test

License

Copyright (c) 2019 Adrien Waksberg

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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