Team Dashboard
Team Dashboard lets you visualize your team's metrics all in one place (see Screenshots). It is build to be shown on a big screen in your team's space.
It has built-in support for Graphite, Ganglia, Jenkins, Travis CI, Errbit, New Relic, Pingdom, Sensu and more and makes it really easy to add more data sources.
It is implemented as a Rails app and uses ActiveRecord to store your custom dashboards configuration.
Support via Team Dashboard Google Group
News
Team Dashboard 2.0.0 is available (March 5, 2013)
The final release is now available. More details in the Changelog!
Team Dashboard 2 RC2 is available (April 14, 2013)
Lots of new features and bugfixes. This is (hopefully) the last release candidate!
Read the Changelog!
Team Dashboard 2 RC1 is available (March 16, 2013)
Please checkout the Changelog and read the Migration Guide.
Getting Started
Debian Stable Prerequisites
Install bundler and the required libraries for gem compilation:
apt-get install bundler libxml2-dev libz-dev libmysqlclient-dev libxslt-dev
Download, install, and start
Clone the repository:
git clone git://github.com/fdietz/team_dashboard.git
Run bundler:
bundle install
On Windows the unicorn gem is not supported (the installation of the kgio gem will fail). But you can use thin instead (see Stack Overflow Issue).
Create a database.yml from the example config. Note, that this will overwrite your existing configuration using MySQL:
cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml
Create the database and run migrations:
rake db:create && rake db:migrate
There is an initial "Demo" source and sample dashboards provided. Generate these via:
rake populate
Start the Rails server:
rails s
or use unicon directly:
bundle exec unicorn -c config/unicorn.rb
Running the build
Run the Rails unit/functional tests:
rake
Run the javascript unit tests (using karma):
karma start
Note, that it requires NodeJS to be installed. There's a package.json provided to install the dependencies using npm install command.
Configuration
System-wide configuration settings reside in config/secrets.yml.
For example when configuring graphite you can see the configuration settings in secrets.yml:
graphite_url: <%= ENV['GRAPHITE_URL'] %>
You can either change the configuration there or set the environment variable when starting the rails app:
GRAPHITE_URL=http://localhost:8080 rails s
Use environment variables in production instead of storing your secret information directly in secrets.yml. When deploying on Heroku you can set these as described in Configuration and Config Vars.
Alternatively, you can decide to remove secrets.yml from source control and instead link to a yml file existing on the production environment only. This is most commonly used when deploying with capistrano.
The configuration was changed to resemble the Rails 4.1 secrets.yml feature in order to support an easy upgrade path.
All data sources reside in app/models/sources and provide source code documentation with further details.
Dashboard Widgets
A dashboard in Team Dashboard consists of multiple Widgets, which request data from a data source via AJAX request.
All widgets have a name, time interval in which to update themselves and a data source as a common configuration.
You can easily add your own data source plugins (Data Source Plugins Developer Guide) and implement custom widgets (Widget Developer Guide).
Available Widgets
Graph Widget
The graph widget shows a time series line or area graph. Use it to show number of visits on your web page or number of currently online users and follow-up on trends.
It currently supports Graphite and Ganglia.
Number Widget
Shows the current integer value provided by the data source, the percentage of change compared to the previous value and an optional label. Use it to show for the example the number of errors on specific systems or the number of users.
It currently supports a New Relic, Hockey App, http proxy data source and Issue counter for Jira Filters.
Boolean Widget
Shows the current boolean value provided by the data source and an optional label. Use it to show for example the success of a Jenkins build or the health status of a system.
It currently supports Pingdom, arbitrary shell commands and a http proxy data source.
Alert Widget
It is similar to the Boolean Widget. It is designed to show the alerts of your system. The idea behind was introducing a possibility for linking the dashboard with the Sensu monitoring framework and displaying the alerts and the respective messages.
It currently supports Sensu.
CI (Continous Integration Server) Widget
Shows the current build status for a given project.
It currently supports Jenkins and Travis CI.
Exception Tracker Widget
Shows the number of unresolved errors in your exception tracker, and when the last error occurred. It currently supports Errbit.
Status Table Widget
Shows data in a table format with an overall status (like the alert widget) and individual row status with a label and a value.
It currently supports using a json file as input.
Credits & Contributors
Thanks go to Martin Tschischauskas and Marno Krahmer who worked with me on the first iteration which was build as part of a XING Hackathon Project.
- luxflux (Raffael Schmid)
- frankmt (Francisco Trindade)
- leejones (Lee Jones)
- rngtng (Tobias Bielohlawek)
- ndbroadbent (Nathan Broadbent)
- DraganMileski (Dragan Mileski)
- averell23 (Daniel Hahn)
- martintsch (Martin Tschischauskas)
- Marno Krahmer
- paulhamby (Paul Hamby)
The MIT License
Copyright (c) 2012 Frederik Dietz
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