[CALUG] ISO Open Source Dashboarding Software

[Brandon Lichtenwalner]

Thomas,

I'll only comment on the two that I have _limited_ experience with.

*Netdata*
I've heard tons of good things about it. Installation on my workstation was
relatively painless. I'm hoping to deploy on several servers and am looking
into their cloud option, though I'm hoping to be able to self-host for my
company. It collects and displays a ton of useful system info right out of
the box. The only things stopping me from deploying are testing/time and
the thought that maybe something like Zabbix or Nagios is better suited to
what I'm trying to accomplish (monitoring production servers/VMs).

*Grafana*
It is super powerful and as far as I can tell it can help you visualize
just about anything! That said, I believe you need to set up data sources
to feed into grafana. So if you already have specific "collectors" running
that you can dump into grafana, it may be the tool for you. But
otherwise I _think_
it needs to be paired with something actually doing the data collection. My
experience is limited though, so I could have this wrong.

I'm sure the other tools are great too. The best part is that you can try
them all for free!

...if you have the time ;)

 - Brandon

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> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 14:00:11 -0400
> From: Thomas Delrue <thomas at epistulae.net>
> To: CALUG Mailing List <calug at unknownlamer.org>
> Subject: Re: [CALUG] ISO Open Source Dashboarding Software
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> On 7/14/20 3:57 PM, Thomas Delrue wrote:
> > Does anyone have any recommendations for open source (web-based)
> > dashboarding applications? The solution I'm looking for should be
> > able to display a variety of different pieces of information that it
> > gets from web/REST/JSON APIs, as well as directly from random
> > databases it can be hooked into.
> >
> > In terms of graphing, I'm interested in tables, graphs, heatmaps,
> > map overlays, etc, the more the better.
> >
> > If anyone has any recommendations, I'd be very interested in
> > learning about what you recommend and how it worked for you!
>
> Thank you everyone for the feedback!
>
> As a follow-up to everyone, the suggested solutions were:
> Apache Superset: https://superset.incubator.apache.org
> Freeboard: https://freeboard.io
> Grafana: https://grafana.com
> Netdata: https://www.netdata.cloud/
> Redash: https://redash.io (recently bought by Databricks, but there is
> an open source version)
> Smashing: https://github.com/Smashing/smashing
>
> Looking at them tall, I'm going to start looking at Apache Superset
> unless someone tells me that this would be a mistake...
>
> Thanks again for the collective wisdom :)
>
> T
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