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I think some of our issue is PE reporting metrics that we don't understand, the other part being, that if an agent is ran from the PE console, it takes a lot longer than if puppet agent -t is run from the server.  It doesn't make any sense to us.

hmm thats interesting <@U11MDJNGZ> any ideas on this?

Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Running the agent from the Console is very close to `puppet agent -t`. The only major difference is that the run happens in context of the `pxp-agent.service` instead of a full user login shell.

For some older versions of Puppet, the timing metrics can be affected by clock jumps. E.g. if applying the catalog includes or triggers a NTP sync, then you can get numbers that don't add up.

Latest Puppet versions use the system monotonic clock, which just counts time since boot.