salt-sniffer.

Listens on salt event bus and post events to slack

salt-sniffer is a small Python application which runs on the same instance with salt-master and listens events on salt event bus after intercepting event it will send it to the slack channel You can find more info about salt event bus on https://docs.saltstack.com/en/2015.8/topics/event/index.html

Install

install slacker pip install slacker

Download salt-sniffer.py You can instantiate it by using supervisord, systemd, upstart or any other init system

Config

Configuration is done using environment variables Before running app you have to add: Mandatory: export SLACK_TOKEN='xoxb-5654646464646-kjdshfksjbfksjbfkerere' Other: export EXCLUDE_FUNS=saltutil.find_job,test.ping #you can filter functions export EXCLUDE_USERS="testuser" #you can filter users export EXCLUDE_ARGS=/etc/portage/make.conf #you can filter arguments export SLACK_MSG_LIMIT=4 #number of slack messages per salt batch export SLACK_CHANNEL=#general export MASTER_CONF=/etc/salt/master

Run

$ sudo python salt-sniffer.py

Test

create file local_env with env vars

export SLACK_TOKEN='xoxb-234234234-sfgsfgsfgsfgsfgsfgsfg' export SLACK_CHANNEL=#general

build/run docker container: ./bin/run-docker

run app: python salt-sniffer.py

connect to container: docker exec ${container-name} bash

run salt command salt'*' test.ping