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loading dashboard right after adding endpoint will never show the data #537

Closed Dieterbe closed 8 years ago

Dieterbe commented 8 years ago

1) create new endpoint 2) go to dashboard straight away 3) graphite data is not in our system yet so the endpoint/probe variables don't load 4) no matter how long you wait, and hitting refresh button, the endpoint/probe variables won't load, even after the data existsts (this is can be considered an upstream grafana issue I think?) 5) you have to reload the actual page for the dashboards to work. this is not obvious and could leave a bad first impression to new users.

not sure how to fix.

nopzor1200 commented 8 years ago

I think that's what the "reload variables on dashboard reload" option is for, right? That's what I thought but I could be wrong. It needs to be enabled on all litmus dashboards -r

On Wednesday, December 2, 2015, Dieter Plaetinck notifications@github.com wrote:

so it's sort of an upstream grafana issue, but it affects especially the litmus scenario.

1) create new endpoint 2) go to dashboard straight away 3) graphite data is not in our system yet so the endpoint/probe variables don't load 4) no matter how long you wait, and hitting refresh button, the endpoint/probe variables won't load, even after the data existsts (this is can be considered an upstream grafana issue I think?) 5) you have to reload the actual page for the dashboards to work. this is not obvious and could leave a bad first impression to new users.

not sure how to fix.

  • make grafana reload variables on reload?
  • populate metricDefs in ES as soon as we can (before having data). i thought we already had something that creates the metrics as early as we can. how does this work again. but it seems like it's not fast enough if you load a dashboard immediately after creating the endpoint. (this manual user action takes me about 0.5~1s)

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mattttt commented 8 years ago

This is also kinda related to issue https://github.com/raintank/customer-experience/issues/17

woodsaj commented 8 years ago

I think that it is unrealistic to expect there to be data immediately after creating a new endpoint. I would rather disable the dashboard links for "X" seconds (probably 2x check frequency) after initial creation of the endpoint.