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The agent is attempting to download localized translations (not to be confused with the

translate

module). This behavior can be controlled on the agent by setting

puppet config set disable_i18n true --section main

. As of puppet 7 and up, the

disable_i18n

defaults to true, so this should only be an issue with older agents.

This request, verbatim, is ~30% of all of our requests

request.raw: /puppet/v3/file_metadatas/locales?environment=production&links=follow&recurse=true&source_permissions=ignore&ignore=.svn&ignore=CVS&ignore=.git&ignore=.hg&ignore=%2A.pot&ignore=config.yaml&checksum_type=md5

I tried isolating this by monitoring the requeststs from one single agent, and then running puppet with

puppet agent -t --disable_i18n=true

and it still made the same request. I will note that this is puppet 5, and we are actively moving to puppet 7, so things may be improved there. I only noticed this because I went on a

file {source =>}

crusade and got rid of all the others. It may be something that is less of a problem on puppet 7.

@Stephen Try

puppet agent -t --disable_i18n

Still there 🙂