Team Dashboard

Visualize your team's metrics all in one place.

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Team Dashboard lets you visualize your team's metrics all in one place. It is build to be shown on a big screen in your team's space.

Heroku hosted Demo

It has built-in support for Graphite, Ganglia, Jenkins, Travis CI, Errbit, New Relic, Pingdom and more and makes it really easy to add more data sources.

It is implemented as a Rails app and uses ActiveRecord to store your custom dashboards configuration.

Support via Team Dashboard Google Group

News

Team Dashboard 2.0.0 is available

The final release is now available. More details in the announcement.

Team Dashboard 2 RC2 is available

Lots of new features and bugfixes. This is (hopefully) the last release candidate!

Read the Changelog

Team Dashboard 2 RC1 is available

Please checkout the release announcement and read the Migration Guide.

Getting Started

Clone the repository:

git clone git://github.com/fdietz/team_dashboard.git

Run bundler:

bundle install

Create a database.yml from the example config (using MySQL):

cp config/database.example.yml config/database.yml

Create the database and run migrations:

rake db:create && rake db:migrate

There is an initial "Demo" source and sample dashboards provided. Generate these via:

rake populate

Start the Rails server:

rails s

Running the build

If you want to run the tests locally, you will need to install PhantomJS

brew update && brew install phantomjs

Run the unit tests (ruby & js)

rake

Configuration

System-wide configuration settings are done in either application.rb or with an environment variable.

For example when configuring graphite you can see the configuration settings in application.rb:

config.graphite_url = ENV['GRAPHITE_URL']

You can either change the configuration there or set the environment variable when starting the rails app:

GRAPHITE_URL=http://localhost:8080 rails s

All data sources reside in app/models/sources and provide source code documentation with further details.

Dashboard Widgets

A dashboard in Team Dashboard consists of multiple Widgets, which request data from a data source via AJAX request.

All widgets have a name, time interval in which to update themselves and a data source as a common configuration.

You can easily add your own data source plugins (Data Source Plugins Developer Guide) and implement custom widgets (Widget Developer Guide).

Available Widgets

Graph Widget

The graph widget shows a time series line or area graph. Use it to show number of visits on your web page or number of currently online users and follow-up on trends.

It currently supports Graphite and Ganglia.

Number Widget

Shows the current integer value provided by the data source, the percentage of change compared to the previous value and an optional label. Use it to show for the example the number of errors on specific systems or the number of users.

It currently supports a New Relic, Hockey App and a http proxy data source.

Boolean Widget

Shows the current boolean value provided by the data source and an optional label. Use it to show for example the success of a Jenkins build or the health status of a system.

It currently supports Pingdom, arbitrary shell commands and a http proxy data source.

CI (Continous Integration Server) Widget

Shows the current build status for a given project.

It currently supports Jenkins and Travis CI.

Exception Tracker Widget

Shows the number of unresolved errors in your exception tracker, and when the last error occurred. It currently supports Errbit.

Credits & Contributors

Thanks go to Martin Tschischauskas and Marno Krahmer who worked with me on the first iteration which was build as part of a XING Hackathon Project.

The MIT License

Copyright (c) 2012 Frederik Dietz

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