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+# Ansible-TimeLogger
+
+Ansible Playbook to setup a service on a machine that records the time every second to an output file.
+This is useful for generating testing information on a set of machines.
+Outputs to the `/opt/timelogger/timelogger` file by default and is also accessible via journalctl.
+
+## Example
+
+Execute playbook with needed variables to setup a server with the time logging service.
+
+`ansible-playbook -i hosts site.yml`
+
+```yml
+---
+# file: hosts
+
+kvm:
+  hosts:
+    srv1:
+      ansible_host: 10.10.10.14
+
+  vars:
+    ansible_user: ansible
+```