I'd like to have the response times from sites in Ansible, something along the lines like this, but in Ansible. I'm using the URI module but it seems it does not support response times.
I do not like to use the callback plugin with the time profile, because I state multiple url's in a single task.
I see Ansible does not return the values I require, is this something someone has already done?
So, I've created a whole playbook out of this request. The playbook itself includes:
One could set a cronjob to let the playbook run each x seconds.
To answer this specific question:
- hosts: localhost
vars:
sites:
- https://google.com
- name: verify if all urls works properly
uri:
url: "{{ item }}"
timeout: 10
with_items: "{{ sites }}"
register: health_check
ignore_errors: yes
# From the docs: The time in sec it took from the start until
# the first byte was just about to be transferred. This includes
# time_pretransfer and also the time the server needed to calculate the result.
- name: response times of sites via cURL via the `starttransfer` method
shell: 'curl {{ item }} -s -o /dev/null -w "%{time_starttransfer}\n"'
register: curl_time
ignore_errors: True
args:
warn: false
with_items:
- "{{ sites }}"
- name: write url and status code to file
lineinfile:
line: "{{ start_time }}, {{ item.url }}, {{ item.status }}"
insertafter: EOF
dest: "{{ file_path }}"
with_items: "{{ health_check.results }}"
- name: append response times to the file
lineinfile:
path: "{{ file_path }}"
backrefs: yes
regexp: "^(.*{{ start_time }}, .*{{ item.item | replace ('https://', '') | replace ('http://', '') }}.*)"
line: '\1, {{ item.stdout }}'
with_items: "{{ curl_time.results }}"
