Hi,
On 2014-06-18 15:57, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
>
>> [...]
>> - PCP+Graphite worked ok but there was a usability issue: if you want to
>> graph a period which is scattered in several archives then clicking
>> through all of them (especially if adding several metrics) quickly get
>> tedious. I'm not very familiar with Graphite so I don't know whether
>> there would be a way to avoid this there.
>
> Before all that, we can take advantage of the graphite wildcarding
> facilities. Metric names can contain *, which refers to the union of
> matching metrics. So e.g. in graphlot or the graphite browser
> subwindow ("Graph Data") where you edit metric names, type
>
> *SUBSTRING*.FOO.BAR
>
> to get all the archives containing SUBSTRING rendered together.
> Natural candidates for SUBSTRING would include partial host names
> or timestamp MMDD substrings.
ah, this was helpful, thanks.
> Another possible change would be to have a less impressive
> default.json dashboard in other ways, maybe cutting down from two
> graphs to one, or restricting it to a smaller timeframe, or something
> like that.
Btw, the blinkenlights demo updates the URL dynamically based on the
rules created, the result is then easy the share with others. Did you
try to share Grafana dashboards with others by providing a URL? The
"Share temp copy" didn't quite work for me and a JSON file from "Export
dashboard" is not very practical.
Thanks,
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Marko Myllynen
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