Get a list of available metrics

[tzach]

With Graphite, I can get a tree of all available metrics.
Is there a similar feature in Tessera?
Can I get the collected metrics without switching to Graphite?

[clohtd]

Hello,

Tessera is currently only about presentation; it is absent the query composer of other tools. That particular feature is one that many of us desire.

This is on the front page, second paragraph:

https://github.com/urbanairship/tessera
Tessera is initially focused on information presentation - it does not NOT address the areas of metric discovery or query composition (although it may in the future).

[tzach]

Thanks for the prompt response.
The presentation is indeed beautiful!

[aalpern]

@tzach I do have some future plans for a more extensive graph builder which will probably involve some basic metric picking. In the end you're always going to need to edit queries yourself, however, as I don't really want to go down the route that Grafana has taken, with a Graphite query expression parser and a complicated visual builder for them. Especially when you add templates into the mix, good old fashioned text editing is best.

My personal workflow for building dashboards involves choosing metrics in Graphite's built in graph editor, finalizing and templatizing the queries in an emacs buffer, and then pasting the query into tessera.

Obviously having a single-tool workflow would be ideal, but not if it involves too many compromises.