Ansible callback plugin for human-readable result logging - http://blog.cliffano.com/2014/04/06/human-readable-ansible-playbook-log-output-using-callback-plugin/

human_log.py

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FIELDS = ['cmd', 'command', 'start', 'end', 'delta', 'msg', 'stdout', 'stderr']

def human_log(res):

    if type(res) == type(dict()):
        for field in FIELDS:
            if field in res.keys():
            	# use default encoding, check out sys.setdefaultencoding
                print u'\n{0}:\n{1}'.format(field, res[field])
                # or use specific encoding, e.g. utf-8
                #print '\n{0}:\n{1}'.format(field, res[field].encode('utf-8'))

class CallbackModule(object):

	def on_any(self, *args, **kwargs):
		pass

	def runner_on_failed(self, host, res, ignore_errors=False):
		human_log(res)

	def runner_on_ok(self, host, res):
		human_log(res)

	def runner_on_error(self, host, msg):
		pass

	def runner_on_skipped(self, host, item=None):
		pass

	def runner_on_unreachable(self, host, res):
		human_log(res)

	def runner_on_no_hosts(self):
		pass

	def runner_on_async_poll(self, host, res, jid, clock):
		human_log(res)

	def runner_on_async_ok(self, host, res, jid):
		human_log(res)

	def runner_on_async_failed(self, host, res, jid):
		human_log(res)

	def playbook_on_start(self):
		pass

	def playbook_on_notify(self, host, handler):
		pass

	def playbook_on_no_hosts_matched(self):
		pass

	def playbook_on_no_hosts_remaining(self):
		pass

	def playbook_on_task_start(self, name, is_conditional):
		pass

	def playbook_on_vars_prompt(self, varname, private=True, prompt=None, encrypt=None, confirm=False, salt_size=None, salt=None, default=None):
		pass

	def playbook_on_setup(self):
		pass

	def playbook_on_import_for_host(self, host, imported_file):
		pass

	def playbook_on_not_import_for_host(self, host, missing_file):
		pass

	def playbook_on_play_start(self, pattern):
		pass

	def playbook_on_stats(self, stats):
		pass

@jpic thank you !

@cliffano Using this, I get clean output but the output is not stored in ansible.log
Is there a way around that I use this callback, and also store logs in ansible.log, without having to print the output twice?

thank you for this!

May I ask how to use this ???

ansible -m ping all -vvvv has error on my machine, but the log is too long, I have no idea how to pretty print it.

@jpic Many thanks!

@alexlawrence do you have the error ( 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\u03bc'
in position 696: ordinal not in range(128)) resolved? if so, would you please share the fix.

echoing the tanks here to @jpic - I had forked a version of this same plugin downstream from someone else only to find that with the version of ansible I am currently using 2.4.3.0 it was not even needed!

ansible/ansible#27078 (comment)
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.4.3.0-1/lib/ansible/plugins/callback/debug.py

Hi, i am new to Ansible. Can you please list the steps how to use it.
I have a playbook and i need to hook up this callback plugin to my playbook to create a log files.

any advise will be highly appreciated!!

The object has no property 'CallbackModule', I configured my ansible_plugins path to the callback plug-in, and now report this error.Please check it for me