Live Charts

Live Charts provides real-time visualization of critical system metrics. With Live Charts, you can effortlessly monitor and track the current usage of CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network resources within your Docker containers. The extension offers intuitive and interactive charts that dynamically update to reflect the most recent data, enabling you to make informed decisions and optimize your containerized environment. Stay on top of your system's performance with Live Charts and gain valuable insights into resource utilization, empowering you to efficiently manage your Docker infrastructure.

Local development

You can use docker to build, install and push your extension. Also, we provide an opinionated Makefile that could be convenient for you. There isn't a strong preference of using one over the other, so just use the one you're most comfortable with.

To build the extension, use make build-extension or:

  docker buildx build -t artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest . --load

To install the extension, use make install-extension or:

  docker extension install artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest

If you want to automate this command, use the -f or --force flag to accept the warning message.

To preview the extension in Docker Desktop, open Docker Dashboard once the installation is complete. The left-hand menu displays a new tab with the name of your extension. You can also use docker extension ls to see that the extension has been installed successfully.

Frontend development

During the development of the frontend part, it's helpful to use hot reloading to test your changes without rebuilding your entire extension. To do this, you can configure Docker Desktop to load your UI from a development server. Assuming your app runs on the default port, start your UI app and then run:

  cd ui
  npm install
  npm run dev

This starts a development server that listens on port 3000.

You can now tell Docker Desktop to use this as the frontend source. In another terminal run:

  docker extension dev ui-source artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest http://localhost:3000

In order to open the Chrome Dev Tools for your extension when you click on the extension tab, run:

  docker extension dev debug artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest

Each subsequent click on the extension tab will also open Chrome Dev Tools. To stop this behaviour, run:

  docker extension dev reset artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest

Clean up

To remove the extension:

docker extension rm artifision/live-charts-docker-extension:latest

License

The Live Charts is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Credits

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