This project is designed to optimize the creation of dashboards using ElasticSearch data. Dashboards are written as static HTML/Javascript; which can make AjAX calls to the public cluster; and provide an interactive experience with little effort.
My page of charts hosts the master branch of this repo. Please feel free to view and run them through your debugger.
- No Web Server - Dashboards are simply Javascript (AJAX) and HTML. There is no server to setup.
- No Schema - ElasticSearch stores JSON documents with little fixed schema. This is good for rapid prototyping, and makes it easy to annotate data without adding the complications of data migration.
- Code is versionable - Data topology and data queries are described in JSON, dashboard layout is HTML and CSS. This makes the code (and changes to the code) amenable to version control.
- Queries are JSON - Queries are in JSON structures, which are easily transmitted or serialized, and are easily handled by both Javascript and Python. The Qb query form provides an abstraction layer between the docstore/database holding the data and the charting/stats package performing the analysis.
- No GUI tools - There is no drag-and-drop query builder, You must be proficient in SQL and other high level list comprehensions.
- No GUI Layout - Layout of dashboard is done in HTML and CSS.
- Limited Charting (for now) - There are better charting libraries out there.
Access to one of the bug clusters is required:
- HTTPS proxy to public cluster
https://esfrontline.bugzilla.mozilla.org:443/public_bugs/bug_version - Non-encrypted proxy to public cluster
http://esfrontline.bugzilla.mozilla.org:80/public_bugs/bug_version - Direct to private cluster (need VPN access)
http://esfrontline-private-vip.bugs.scl3.mozilla.com:9200/private_bugs/bug_version
Due to restrictions on the public cluster, it is best to test it with the the minimum viable example page. The clusters behind VPN can be tested normally with ElasticSearch Head.
git clone https://github.com/klahnakoski/MoDevMetrics.git
Cloning into 'MoDevMetrics'...
remote: Counting objects: 6563, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (3142/3142), done.
remote: Total 6563 (delta 4485), reused 5226 (delta 3148)
Receiving objects: 100% (6563/6563), 17.89 MiB | 234 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (4485/4485), done.
Checking out files: 100% (437/437), done.
Multiple branches are in this repo:
- dev - Default, active, mostly working, branch
- merge - an attempt to upgrade the MoDevLibrary
- master - deployed to at http://people.mozilla.org/~klahnakoski/modevmetrics/
- ETL - stable working version responsible for some additional ETL
- corruption fixer - code that fixes some inconsistencies due to data extraction anomalies in the original ETL
- perfy - working version of the Perfy performance dashboard (no longer in use)
- review - for the review queue dashboards
- selenium_test - attempt to bring in a testing framework
- talos - for Talos performance tracking dashboard (no longer in use)
Code examples to demonstrate minimum functionality:
Tests use Python and Selenium
- Install Python instructions
- Install libraries required for testing:
pip install -r tests\requirements.txt - Run tests:
py.test tests
They take a long time to run, and require you have access to one of the bug clusters.