chef/ohai

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Ohai profiles your system and emits JSON

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Forks: 446
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 66
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Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: Ruby
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 15, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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66 open issues indexed

ec2 plugin: add retries / more resilient fetch for individual IMDS metadata keys Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

chef/ohai#1946 · 1 comment · 4 reactions · Opened Apr 29, 2026
hostnamectl output now includes icons Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 58/100

chef/ohai#1908 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 26, 2025
ohai crashes docker engine when run in an amd64 container on an m4 mac with rosetta acceleration enabled Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

chef/ohai#1889 · Opened Oct 1, 2025
Getting ERROR: shard_seed: Failed to get dmi property serial_number: is dmidecode installed? Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1839 · Opened Sep 13, 2024
ip6address not detected correctly on FreeBSD Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1835 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 2, 2024
[17.9.0] EC2 metadata missing `network-card` information Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 50/100

chef/ohai#1795 · Opened Apr 12, 2023
Incorrect/truncated CPU flags returned with later Linux kernels Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1791 · Opened Mar 13, 2023
Another instance of possible incorrect class comparison Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 1/5 Under an hour Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1790 · Opened Mar 12, 2023
[BUG] Ohai passwd - segmentation fault at 0x0000000000000000 Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/ohai#1773 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 28, 2022
node['cloud'] = nil in AWS environment where full tunnel VPN is enabled Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1767 · Opened Aug 31, 2022
fetching metadata on VMs with pre-defined user-data of Alibaba Cloud causing a never-end recursion, maybe other Cloud Service Providers are affected too Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1765 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 10, 2022
Network Plugin intermittently unable to detect ipaddress Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1764 · Opened Aug 10, 2022
Metadata tags with spaces cause ohai ec2 to return an empty response Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

chef/ohai#1763 · Opened Aug 9, 2022
Custom Ohai plugin not functioning properly after Chef 17 upgrade. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1762 · Opened Aug 1, 2022
fips plugin does not detect host fips mode properly Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1745 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 8, 2022
Ohai simultaneously detects EC2 and Azure clouds Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1743 · Opened Mar 29, 2022
Darwin Hardware: Imparity between Intel and ARM/M1 (Apple Silicon) Apple devices Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1734 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Request: windows_updates plugin (code in description) Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

chef/ohai#1706 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 31, 2021
Report Windows Features to Chef Server Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Design Proposal

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/ohai#1689 · Opened Aug 18, 2021
Add chocolatey package information detection Open

Status: Untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/ohai#1685 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 3, 2021
Ohai always detects the embedded Ruby in the languages plugin since Chef 16 Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1684 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 31, 2021
AWS EC2 ohai plugin replaces - with _ in metadata keys Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1673 · 1 comment · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 25, 2021
"unable to detect ipaddress" when running in Windows Docker container Open

Status: Untriaged Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1667 · Opened May 19, 2021
which with remote Ohai doesn't seem to work as expected Open

Focus: Target Mode Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

chef/ohai#1665 · Opened May 11, 2021
Parse /etc/debian_version to get the full Debian version string Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

chef/ohai#1649 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 9, 2021
`etc` plugin on Mac does not populate group members for remote groups Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

chef/ohai#1644 · Opened Apr 2, 2021
For fedora and friends, include 'yum versionlock' information in packages list Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1621 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 10, 2021
Darwin Hardware ohai plugin can timeout on Big Sur and not set any properties. Open

Focus: Desktop Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

chef/ohai#1603 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 28, 2021
Darwin ShardSeed :serial and :uuid sources reference undefined Hardware properties. Open

Focus: Desktop Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1602 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 28, 2021
If a plugin throws an exception, it should be logged as a warning Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1598 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 21, 2021
Invalid netmask errors should properly log Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1588 · Opened Nov 28, 2020
Improve zpool devices detection Open

Platform: Linux Platform: Unix-like Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1552 · Opened Oct 30, 2020
Ohai target mode perf issues and train API issues Open

Focus: Target Mode

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/ohai#1518 · Opened Sep 22, 2020
Ohai target mode won't be correct for cloud providers Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

chef/ohai#1515 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 18, 2020
Data Tap Output has ""ULONG_MAX":18446744073709552000," which causes Elastic Search Ingest to fail. Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1466 · Opened May 20, 2020
Empty volume name on Windows results in an empty by_device key Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1464 · 2 comments · Opened May 18, 2020
Ohai Networking AIX plugin won't set node['ipaddress'] with segregated IPv6 default route Open

Status: Sustaining Backlog Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1463 · Opened May 13, 2020
Ohai on Darwin has a rescue that masks a ruby logic error with the Socket library Open

Focus: Desktop Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1461 · Opened Apr 29, 2020
Ohai on Darwin sometimes resolves fqdn as localhost Open

Focus: Desktop Type: Bug

chef/ohai#1460 · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 29, 2020
Update windows plugins to use the new DMI data Open

Focus: Desktop

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1450 · Opened Apr 17, 2020
garbled timezone value Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1448 · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Windows 2012 multiple IP addresses not show SkipAsSource setting Open

Platform: Windows Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1430 · Opened Feb 14, 2020
Wrong values in network interfaces state from linux/network.rb Open

Type: Bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1429 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 12, 2020
Ohai Azure Plugin uses ENV['no_proxy'] Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1405 · Opened Oct 7, 2019
Windows drives mounted to NTFS folder mount points are not detected Open

Focus: Desktop

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1364 · 1 comment · Opened May 21, 2019
df timeout means no local filesystem block/inode usage Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1357 · Opened Apr 25, 2019
ohai extremely slow on VMware Fusion macOS VM with VMware Tools installed Open

Focus: Desktop

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

chef/ohai#1352 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 22, 2019
Reloading ohai with plugins specified fails. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

chef/ohai#1345 · Opened Apr 2, 2019
network plugin is broken with BGP learned routes Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

chef/ohai#1344 · Opened Mar 29, 2019
Add NIC duplex setting to Windows network.rb Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

chef/ohai#1334 · Opened Jan 10, 2019

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