ARA Records Ansible on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Overview

ARA Records Ansible is an open source, self hosted reporting tool for Ansible. A lightweight callback plugin captures every play, task, host and result as your playbooks run and sends it to a small API server, which stores the data and renders it in a clean web interface backed by a REST API. Point Ansible at the recorder, run your playbooks exactly as you already do, and a durable, queryable record of what ran, on which hosts, in what order and what changed builds up automatically, so you can see at a glance which task failed on which host and browse the full history of a run.

It suits anyone running Ansible beyond a laptop, from an operator who wants to troubleshoot a failed run to a platform team that needs a shared, searchable audit trail of every change across many playbooks and control nodes, and who would rather keep that execution history on infrastructure they own than send it to a hosted service.

Common uses

• Recording and troubleshooting Ansible playbook runs across a fleet
• A searchable audit trail of what Ansible changed, where and when
• Self hosted Ansible reporting you own instead of a hosted service

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.