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Where do I begin to configure the dashboard UI?

Asked by Jon Schedler - IMVU

I am trying to learn how to setup a dashboard. I am using graphite from the 1.1 branch. We are not using whisper, but tyring to bolt in our own datastore.

The documentation I found for the dashboard only has '...'. Some of the other answers I have read talk about the clicking on images to configure the dashboard, but I only have a black screen. I also seem to get a "Configure your context above, and then select some metrics." message sometimes. But I am not sure what that means or how to do it really. The metric type dropdown is empty as well.

Living on the bleeding edge is exciting!

Where is a good place to start digging in to the code to make my dream come alive?

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Best Nicholas Leskiw (nleskiw) said : 		#1

There's some info in /opt/graphite/conf/dashboard.conf file. (or
conf/dashboard.conf in whichever directory you installed graphite...)

Some things need to be set in that file before you can used the dashboard.

On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jon Schedler - IMVU <
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> New question #168438 on Graphite:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/graphite/+question/168438
>
> I am trying to learn how to setup a dashboard. I am using graphite from
> the 1.1 branch. We are not using whisper, but tyring to bolt in our own
> datastore.
>
> The documentation I found for the dashboard only has '...'. Some of the
> other answers I have read talk about the clicking on images to configure the
> dashboard, but I only have a black screen. I also seem to get a "Configure
> your context above, and then select some metrics." message sometimes. But I
> am not sure what that means or how to do it really. The metric type
> dropdown is empty as well.
>
> Living on the bleeding edge is exciting!
>
> Where is a good place to start digging in to the code to make my dream come
> alive?
>
>
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Jon Schedler - IMVU (jschedler) said : 		#2

Thanks Nicholas Leskiw, that solved my question.

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Alin (alin-simionoiu) said : 		#3

"Some things need to be set in that file before you can used the dashboard."

can you be more explicit please?. what needs to be set in the file before using dashboard?

for me the dashboard stop working. i can get graphs on the main page but on dashboard i can't add anything. i get that broken image and if i right-click "open image in new tab" i see the exception "float division by zero".

any ideas what i'm doing wrong here?

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chrismd (chrismd) said : 		#4

Alin, can you post the URL of the graph that gives you the ZeroDivisionError? Preferably in a separate question since this one is marked as solved.

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Alin (alin-simionoiu) said : 		#5

I believe i figure it out. seems that the dashboard has a problem if the metrics name has :: in the name. if i edit the dashboard graph and use alias is working.

apologies for commenting on the closed question

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Zippy Zeppoli (zippyzeppoli) said : 		#6

Feature request: add to the installation documentation how to get the dashboard up and running. Currently it just ends at how to feed data to it.