inspec/docs/reporters.md

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Chef InSpec Reporters

Chef InSpec Reporters

Introduced in Chef InSpec 1.51.6

A reporter is a facility for formatting and delivering the results of a Chef InSpec auditing run.

Chef InSpec allows you to output your test results to one or more reporters. Configure the reporter(s) using either the --reporter option or as part of the general config file using the --config (or --json-config, prior to v3.6) option. While you can configure multiple reporters to write to different files, only one reporter can output to the screen(stdout).

Syntax

You can specify one or more reporters using the --reporter cli flag. You can also specify a output by appending a path separated by a colon.

Output json to screen.

inspec exec example_profile --reporter json
# or explicitly specifying output to STDOUT:
inspec exec example_profile --reporter json:-

Output yaml to screen

inspec exec example_profile --reporter yaml
# or
inspec exec example_profile --reporter yaml:-

Output cli to screen and write json to a file.

inspec exec example_profile --reporter cli json:/tmp/output.json

Output nothing to screen and write junit and html to a file.

inspec exec example_profile --reporter junit:/tmp/junit.xml html:www/index.html

Output json to screen and write to a file. Write junit to a file.

inspec exec example_profile --reporter json junit:/tmp/junit.xml | tee out.json

If you wish to pass the profiles directly after specifying the reporters you will need to use the end of options flag --.

inspec exec --reporter json junit:/tmp/junit.xml -- profile1 profile2

If you are using the cli option --config, you can also set reporters.

Output cli to screen.

{
    "reporter": {
        "cli" : {
            "stdout" : true
        }
    }
}

Output cli to screen and write json to a file.

{
    "reporter": {
        "cli" : {
            "stdout" : true
        },
        "json" : {
            "file" : "/tmp/output.json",
            "stdout" : false
        }
    }
}

Supported Reporters

The following are the current supported reporters:

cli

This is the basic text base report. It includes details about which tests passed and failed and includes an overall summary at the end.

json

This reporter includes all information about the profiles and test results in standard json format.

json-min

This reporter is a redacted version of the json and only includes test results.

yaml

This reporter includes all information about the profiles and test results in standard yaml format.

documentation

This reporter is a very minimal text base report. It shows you which tests passed by name and has a small summary at the end.

junit

This reporter outputs the standard junit spec in xml format.

progress

This reporter is very condensed and gives you a .(pass), f(fail), or *(skip) character per test and a small summary at the end.

json-rspec

This reporter includes all information from the rspec runner. Unlike the json reporter this includes rspec specific details.

html

This renders html code to view your tests in a browser. It includes all the test and summary information.

Automate Reporter

The automate reporter type is a special reporter used with Chef Automate. To use this reporter you must pass in the correct configuration via a json config --config.

Example config:

{
    "reporter": {
        "automate" : {
            "stdout" : false,
            "url" : "https://YOUR_A2_URL/data-collector/v0/",
            "token" : "YOUR_A2_ADMIN_TOKEN",
            "insecure" : true,
            "node_name" : "inspec_test_node",
            "environment" : "prod"
        }
    }
}

Mandatory fields

stdout

This will either suppress or show the automate report in the CLI screen on completion

url

This is your Automate 2 url. Append data-collector/v0/ at the end.

token

This is your Automate 2 token. You can generate this token by navigating to the admin tab of A2 and then api keys.

Optional fields

insecure

This will disable or enable the ssl check when accessing the Automate 2 instance.

node_name

This will be the node name which shows up in Automate.

node_uuid

This will be the node UUID which shows up in Automate. You will want to use a single static UUID per node for all your reports.

environment

This will set the environment metadata for Automate.