Unable to fetch stats from haproxy after 3 attempts

[MrMoronIV]

Command: metrics-haproxy.rb -c /var/lib/haproxy/stats

Even when I provide username and password the result is still:
Unable to fetch stats from haproxy after 3 attempts

When I run the metrics command on the command line it gives me stats perfectly fine, the socket is chmod 755.

Any suggestions? Literally all sensu checks work on this server except this one.

[Pshellvon]

In my case:
metrics-haproxy.rb -c /var/run/haproxy/admin.sock -a
working like a charm!

[phumpal]

@MrMoronIV does the user executing the metrics check have permission to introspect the haproxy socket?

My workaround was to use rvmsudo. e.g.

rvmsudo metrics-haproxy.rb -c /run/haproxy/admin.sock -a