[CHUKWA-746] Redesign dashboard

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.4.0, 0.5.0, 0.6.0
• Component/s: User Interface

Environment

MacOSX, Linux

• Assignee: Eric Yang
• Reporter: Eric Yang
• Created: 02/May/15 18:01
• Updated: 26/May/15 00:14
• Resolved: 26/May/15 00:14

Description

Chukwa dashboard can be customized with hundreds of parameters with GET query parameters. However, most options are used once and never used again. In the recent change to chart publish REST API call, visualization parameters are converted to be part of graph explorer widget. The charts are static after they are published. This helps to completely remove the query parameter approach of customizing widgets. A widget can be described as easy as a GET URL. This helps us to reduce from the hundred of thousands lines dashboard javascript to something that can accomplish with few lines of javascript to provide the dashboard.

The new dashboard will provide better navigation to include resize, zoom in a widget and task oriented navigation.

Resize widget, have ability to mix and match column and row oriented widgets.
Zoom in provide a way to jump from a summary dashboard to task oriented UI.

Navigation menu provide the following features initially:
Search - Auto completed search to find widgets or indexed logs
User Activities - Enable user to find user applications and job monitoring
System Activities - Display System activities and usage
Graph Explorer - Enable editoral task of generating a chart from HBase data
Settings
Help

Sub-Tasks

• Update Widget storage to HBase: Resolved
• Refactor Series object for charts: Resolved