clifana

Do prometheus visualization stuff on the cli

ideas

• use a toml config file
  • config file will have a place to specify multiple data sources in easy-to-connect formats

  [[server]]
  name=myserver
  url=http://my-prometheus-server:9090/
  

  • config file will have ability to store common queries that you use a lot

  [[query]]
  name=cpu
  query = """
     sum(cpu_seconds_total{foo="$bar"})
  """
  

  • config file will support cli argument to variable substitution (or maybe envvar?)

  [[server]]
  name=generic
  url="http://${serverip}:9090"
  --
  ./clifana --connect=server --query=query --args=serverip,127.0.0.1
  

• maybe visualize graphs in ascii art similar to the python cli visualization tools that exist already