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# System prepended metadata

title: Misc Commands

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# Misc Commands


### Check the size of each item in a node object

Get the data
```bash
ohai -c /etc/chef/client.rb > output.json
```

Analyze the data
```bash
FILE=pld-ancuecom0101-ohai.json; 
jq 'keys[]' $FILE -rM | xargs -I@ bash -c "printf '%16s:' @; jq .@ -rM $FILE | wc -c"
```

### Pull out the size of all the data-collector requests

For automate journalctl output

```bash
grep 'data-collector' journalctl_chef-automate.txt| awk '{print $NF}' | sort -n
```

For chef-server access.log

```bash
grep 'data-collector' access.log| awk '{print $26}' | sort -n
egrep '/organizations/.*/node' access.log| awk '{print $26}' | sort -n
```