ARA is an attempt to make Ansible runs easier to visualize, understand and troubleshoot.

ARA is three things:

1. An Ansible callback plugin to record playbook runs into a local or remote database
2. A CLI client to query the database
3. A web interface to visualize the database

ARA organizes recorded playbook data in a way to make it intuitive for you to search and find what you're interested for as fast and as easily as possible.

It provides summaries of task results per host or per playbook.

It allows you to filter task results by playbook, play, host, task or by the status of the task.

With ARA, you're able to easily drill down from the summary view for the results you're interested in, whether it's a particular host or a specific task.

Beyond browsing a single ansible-playbook run, ARA supports recording and viewing multiple runs in the same database.

This allows you to, for example, recognize patterns (ex: this particular host is always failing this particular task) since you have access to data from multiple runs.

yum -y install gcc python-devel libffi-devel openssl-devel

apt-get -y install gcc python-dev libffi-dev libssl-dev

git clone https://github.com/dmsimard/ara
cd ara
pip install .

pip install ara

A video is available on YouTube and the following are screenshots of the web interface:

Documentation is available on readthedocs.io.

We hang out in #ara on freenode IRC. Come chat with us !

See contributors on GitHub.

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