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Show Journal Size In Navigation Bar #3952

Open jalogisch opened 7 years ago

jalogisch commented 7 years ago

Expected Behavior

Show in the Top Navigation in addition to In/Out of messages the size of the journal. Or have the option to customize this part of the UI to show either or.

Current Behavior

Only the Messages coming in and going out to Elasticsearch are shown in the Top navigation as indicator about the System throughput.

Possible Solution

Have the option as a user to customize that Metric part of the Top navigation with some pre defined values.

Context

Currently you need to have an eye on some external monitoring dashboards to see if your setup buffers messages. Specially in bigger environments where you drop or clone messages the indicator for IN/OUT messages is not enough to have a first glance if everything work as expected.

Knowing the size of the Journal gives you more information if everything work as it should - at least in a well tuned environment.

dennisoelkers commented 6 years ago

IMO this is hardly worth investing a lot of screen estate of a very small container for information with doubtful value, especially when you can go to the nodes overview page with a single click on the throughput.

Which journal would be shown in the top navigation bar when there are multiple nodes in the cluster? All of them? Probably too much. An aggregated value? Having a single node in the cluster with a problem filling up the journal would effectively be shrouded and everything would look good although there is a problem.