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Systems administration for fun and profit

Tag: puppetdb

  • Removing stale facts from PuppetDB

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    Ben Roberts
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    PuppetBoard and PuppetExplorer are both excellent tools but can be slowed down significantly if there are a very large number of facts in PuppetDB. I recently had an issue with some legacy facts tracking stats about mounted filesystems causing a significant amount of bloat, and this is how I cleaned them up. The problem A…