chef user action logging

Question

I am using chef for managing all our cookbooks.

The problem is not only me who uses chef, I wonder if whether there is a way to logging all actions that uses completes.

In particular, I am interested when and who did knife cookbook upload and all other commands of knife.

If there is a way to log all users actions like knife cookbook upload

Answer 1

Every action is logged in /var/log/chef/server.log. You can start by examining the file and exporting relevant information.

You can also try santoku that supports event hooks on knife events and forward these events on a variety of services (hipchat, logstash etc).