How to start with the dashboard?

[bluepuma77]

I was very excited about Riemann when I watched the talk on the Riemann homepage. I thought it would solve all my problems, but I can't get the visualization of the dashboard to run.

I have been testing riemann-dash via Docker containers, I tried rlister/riemann-dash and building my own container according to the blog entry "Realtime Cluster Monitoring With Docker Swarm And Riemann".

The challenge I am facing is that I can't edit anything. The dashboard comes up, I am supposed to press "e", but nothing happens. I am using OS X, I tried activating views (I assume that means tabs) with alt-cmd-click, still I cant do anything via "e". I changed the address to the Riemann server, nothing happens. (Tested the address with telnet, I can connect, so server seems to be running). I watched a tutorial, but for me the edit window never shows up. Tested in Chrome, Firefox and Safari on OS X. No error messages in the console.

What am I missing?

[aphyr]

On 07/22/2016 04:24 AM, bluepuma77 wrote:

views (I assume that means tabs)

You... probably already tried this, but just to make sure, did you follow the quickstart's directions for editing a view?

Let's change the title into a Grid view. Hold CTRL (or OPTION/META depending on your OS) and click the big title "Riemann" in the top pane. The title will be shaded grey to indicate that view is selected.

Then, press "e" to edit, and change "Title" to "Grid". We need to choose a query to select specific states from the index. For starters, let's select everything by typing true in the query field. Hit "Apply" when you're ready.

http://riemann.io/quickstart.html

[bluepuma77]

I did not read that piece - I always clicked on the tabs. It did not occur to me to click on the big letters. Thank you very much for the hint :-)