Notify in verbose or debug mode only

Question

I'm looking for a way to display a notify { ... } message during puppet client run only when using

puppet apply <--verbose | --debug>
puppet agent <--verbose | --debug>

I'd like to display debug messages when interactively/manually running puppet on clients. Yet, I couldn't find a way to evaluate these switches in my puppet manifests. How could I achieve this for puppet 4.x?

Using different environment could be an alternative approach, but I don't want to go that way. — ITL, Sep 16 '15 at 08:09
Have you tried setting a log_level parameter in your puppet.conf ? — kkamil, Sep 16 '15 at 09:17

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 16 '15 at 10:23

All Puppet resources support the loglevel metaparameter, including notify. Set it to debug to make a resource report on that level.

notify { "this is a debug message": loglevel => "debug" }

Output from such resources is hidden by default.

The verbose option does not imply a specific log level.

Notify in verbose or debug mode only

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