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A dashboard for Graphite
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Gdash promoted to an organisation proposal #110

Open kyzh opened 10 years ago

kyzh commented 10 years ago

I would be keen to see gdash as an organisation.

Something like https://github.com/gdash/gdash for the actual code. Maybe that will help to get the project moving a little bit more than it is now, although it is not my point here.

My main argument is more to do with template management and contribution. With gdash as an organisation, we can create a gdash template repository(s).

It could be a repository per template type (as in collectd, munin, diamond), or simply branch on the same repo, or a mix of both Something like gdash/collectd-templates and gdash/munin-templates with a branch per target (RHEL5, RHEL6,arista switch, etc.).

Also looking forward, it allows for infrastructure bits to be stored, like gh-page, rpm spec file, packer config etc. in the same realm, but under different repo.

One of the benefit would be easier access and better visibility on dashboard (more example to look at). That should lead to more contribution, as people realise that there is a place to contribute them back to the community.

powdahound commented 10 years ago

:+1:

kyzh commented 10 years ago

@ripienaar @keymon @hamann @falkenbt any view on this ?

ripienaar commented 10 years ago

I am not against the idea, but I am not sure there really is the momentum from a maintainers perspective to carry it.

I'm mid changing jobs and might have more time to pay this time again in the near future - can't speak for the other maintainers though.

As it is though, gdash is a tool to do one thing well so I'd be against chasing features forever - but I do like the contribution ecosystem you propose.

falkenbt commented 10 years ago

Same here. I think the ecosystem approach is generally a great idea.

Personally, I currently don't have a lot of time to contribute and in general I'm thinking if gdash is the right platform or if we (you?) should focus on different approaches, like improving the existing graphite-web dashboard (e.g. I found evernotes modification interesting: http://blog.evernote.com/tech/2013/07/29/graphite-at-evernote/) or contribute to a client-rendering solution like https://github.com/kenhub/giraffe, which is capable of adding interactivity to the graphs (which was requested for gdash as well).

Maybe it is time to step back and think about requirements for a more general dashboarding solution and then check where and how it could and should be implemented.

What do you think?

bitflingr commented 10 years ago

I personally would love to see more features to this. I have been adding our own features at work that seemed to only pertain to our company needs but perhaps would be nice as a feature. For instance at the time breakdown i added another page that i kinda stole from https://github.com/obfuscurity/dusk?source=c so that it breaks down per machine in a aggregated graph. excellent for eyeballing issues in a group of servers.

filippog commented 9 years ago

@ripienaar updates on this? thanks!

ripienaar commented 9 years ago

Is anyone even still using it? There's a whole lot of really good and actively maintained tools out there.

Be happy to get a org setup but only if I know there's both users and people keen to maintain it. So if people are pipe up and lets see if we can come up with a proposal

bitflingr commented 9 years ago

I personally use it at my work and thought it was the best fit for us at the time. It has since been forked in our private git and we use it extensively. I too have not noticed a lot of activity for it but would love to see it.

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Is anyone even still using it? There's a whole lot of really good and actively maintained tools out there.

Be happy to get a org setup but only if I know there's both users and people keen to maintain it. So if people are pipe up and lets see if we can come up with a proposal

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filippog commented 9 years ago

wikimedia foundation has a public installation at https://gdash.wikimedia.org (full disclosure: I work there) and I was looking to update it to latest upstream

bitflingr commented 9 years ago

Nice!

I have added several things such as pagination for the frontpage, typeahead search, latest bootstrap, an API call that returns a breakdown of all machines within a certain grouping (basically another link past the time graphs), experimental highcharts view. I think gdash is great since you can write your templates and just have your dashboards include those templates and the dashboards can be easily generated with scripts. Not many dashboards have that which is a really nice feature. I would love to contribute back to this when i have the time.

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wikimedia foundation has a public installation at https://gdash.wikimedia.org (full disclosure: I work there) and I was looking to update it to latest upstream

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