Only show changed tasks

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I usually save the output of my ansible scripts to a log file. There are many times when I wish I could see only the changed tasks. How can I filter out all of the tasks that made no change? All suggestions are welcomed.

Thanks.

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The documentation for the default callback plugin may be of interest. You can modify these settings in your ansible.cfg file or using environment variables

[defaults]
display_skipped_hosts = false
display_ok_hosts = false

export ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_SKIPPED_HOSTS=false
export ANSIBLE_DISPLAY_OK_HOSTS=false
ansible-playbook ...
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Also, you might also want to take a look at ARA (https://ara.recordsansible.org), it uses an callback plugin to record a lot more information in a searchable, clear reporting tool.

I almost never look at the output of my playbooks, only in ARA and I even run them with --diff (which generally generates even more output).

And you can set up an ARA server in minutes if you use the GitHub - ansible-community/ara-collection: Collection of Ansible roles for ARA Records Ansible. :slight_smile: