BigBlueButton Monitoring Web App

Super simple monitoring web app for BigBlueButton that will display a list of all current meetings on your BigBlueButton server.

Required ENV variables:

• API_BASE_URL
• API_SECRET

HTTP server will listen on port: 5000

Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/greenstatic/bigbluebutton-monitoring

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See BigBlueButton-exporter to integrate BigBlueButton metrics into Prometheus and display them in Grafana.

Demo Screenshot

Installation

We assume you have docker installed and configured, as well as nginx.

Using docker-compose

Make sure you have docker-compose installed.

1. On your BigBlueButton server

   mkdir ~/bbb-monitor

2. Create the file ~/bbb-monitor/docker-compose.yaml and copy the contents of docker-compose.yaml from this repository.
3. Edit ~/bbb-monitor/docker-compose.yaml and replace the required fields
4. Create the file ~/bbb-monitor/secrets.env and place your API_SECRET in it. It should look something like this:

   API_SECRET=<TODO: YOUR API SECRET KEY>
   

5. cd into ~/bbb-monitor and run sudo docker-compose up -d.
   • If you wish a specific version of the docker container run instead:

   sudo BBB_MONITORING_VERSION=<YOUR DESIRED DOCKER IMAGE VERSION> docker-compose up -d

Alternative Installation Without docker-compose

# Example of API BASE URL: https://bbb.example.com/bigbluebutton/api/
# API SECRET KEY can be found by SSH into BBB and running: `$ bbb-conf --secret`
docker run --name bbb-monitoring -d -p 127.0.0.1:4000:5000 --env API_SECRET=<API SECRET KEY> --env API_BASE_URL=<API BASE URL> greenstatic/bigbluebutton-monitoring


# If you wish to configure HTTP Basic Auth
sudo apt-get install apache2-utils
sudo htpasswd -c /etc/nginx/.htpasswd admin  # user: admin
# then enter password

Nginx (Common for Both Installation Methods)

Then you can proxy to the bbb-monitoring container running on port 4000 (localhost only). Example nginx config with HTTP basic auth:

# BigBlueButton Monitoring
        location /_monitoring/ {
           auth_basic "BigBlueButton Monitoring";
           auth_basic_user_file /etc/nginx/.htpasswd;
           proxy_pass         http://127.0.0.1:4000/;
           proxy_redirect     default;
           proxy_set_header   X-Forwarded-For   $proxy_add_x_forwarded_for;
           client_max_body_size       10m;
           client_body_buffer_size    128k;
           proxy_connect_timeout      90;
           proxy_send_timeout         90;
           proxy_read_timeout         90;
           proxy_buffer_size          4k;
           proxy_buffers              4 32k;
           proxy_busy_buffers_size    64k;
           proxy_temp_file_write_size 64k;
           include    fastcgi_params;
        }

Environment Variables

• API_BASE_URL
• API_SECRET
• DEBUG: - Verbose logging, useful when debugging
  • Values: true/false

Development

# Do not forget to install requirements.txt and have the required ENV variables set!
python3 bbb-mon/server.py

On master push, a build job will automatically build a Docker image on Docker Hub (link to Docker Hub repoistory is above).