Dashboards

What?

Dashboards are simple html template files that display the results for one or more queries. TODO:

• make queries editable through web UI.
• allow to create simple dashboards from scratch using web UI

Creating your own

Just look at the existing files in templates/dashboards, create a new one, and it will automatically be listed (after a graph-explorer restart)

Templated, parametrized and url-driven dashboards

• Dashboards have an apply_to_all input, allowing you to add a query modifier that will apply to all queries on the page (such as "avg over 20M server:prod-")
• Dashboards can preset this filter, for example the server-basics dashboard sets it to "server=fill_in_servername", which means you can just change that value to get a dashboard for a specific server value. This is basically parametrized dashboards implemented in a simple way.
• You can also drive the apply_to_all setting by the url. for example "/dashboard/server-basics/" will open the dashboard for that hostname, you can also add any GEQL content here (such as "avg over" etc)