Ansible playbook shell output

Question

I would like to quickly monitor some hosts using commands like ps,dstat etc using ansible-playbook. The ansible command itself perfectly does what I want, for i

Answer 1

This is a start may be :

- hosts: all
  gather_facts: no
  tasks:
    - shell: ps -eo pcpu,user,args | sort -r -k1 | head -n5
      register: ps

    - local_action: command echo item
      with_items: ps.stdout_lines

NOTE: Docs regarding ps.stdout_lines are covered here: ('Register Variables' chapter).