# Apps/utilities to store facts?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Created:** [May 22, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514 "2016-05-22T18:30:08Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Guy\_Knights](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Guy\_Knights](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Guy_Knights)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514/1 "2016-05-22T18:30:08Z")

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Are there any apps out there designed to store facts from ansible runs, kind of like puppetdb? I think it would be kind of useful to have this info readily available to view/query outside of playbook runs.

Guy

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**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514/2 "2016-05-22T19:25:28Z")

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You can cache facts either in a json file or using redis - have a look at fact caching on this page here:

[http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks\_variables.html#fact-caching](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/playbooks_variables.html#fact-caching)

Hope this helps,

Jon

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**Author:** ![dch](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/dch/32/7132_2.png) [@dch](https://forum.ansible.com/u/dch)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2016, 8:01pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514/3 "2016-05-22T20:01:52Z")

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I've been stashing them in CouchDB, but haven't as of yet found anything  
useful/interesting to do with the actual data.

What sort of queries or structure is of interest?

A+  
Dave

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**Author:** ![Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kai\_Stian\_Olstad](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kai_Stian_Olstad)\
**Post date:** [May 23, 2016, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/apps-utilities-to-store-facts/21514/4 "2016-05-23T11:40:53Z")

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Check out Ansible Configuration Management Database  
[https://github.com/fboender/ansible-cmdb](https://github.com/fboender/ansible-cmdb)

You can also check out the example her  
[https://rawgit.com/fboender/ansible-cmdb/master/example/html\_fancy.html](https://rawgit.com/fboender/ansible-cmdb/master/example/html_fancy.html)