[almighty] The application dashboard

[Karanbir Singh]

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Hi,

I'd like to start the conversations around the application dashboard,
what it might look like and how we might achieve it.

An application dashboard is a single endpoint that should give the
user[1] an overall 'state' of play, along with history for the
evolution of present state. It should include:

- - tested state of the services, their end points and resource /
deployment bits
- - All the stateful components, db's, key val's etc
- - The state of the infra running the app itself
- - State of code evolution, by way of current commit hash's deployed
for various services etc
- - logs: of the app, from the app, of the infra under the app
- - metrics: of the app, from the app

one additional piece that I always try and get, and have found it very
useful in the past, is to track the major dependencies upstream and
report them into this app dashboard as well. eg, if we are investing
in nodejs4.x; tracking their release; similarly if we rely on a
specific feature in openshift we should track that as well. At the
broad macro level.

Think of it as the devops dashboard, it might itself service the
content beyond some meters or red/yellow/green lights, but would host
links to the relevant places where we deliver the content behind it.

[1]: The user in this case would be the operations interested parties,
the product and project management groups and most developers
contributing into the codebase.

regards,


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Karanbir Singh, Project Lead, The CentOS Project, London, UK
Red Hat Ext. 8274455 | DID: 0044 207 009 4455
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