[aerogear-dev] Adding a dashboard to Grafana

[Paul Wright]

Hi,

Thanks for suggestions, I think 'Creating a dashboard in Grafana' is the 
right way to go.

Let me explain my motivation here, I was reading the doc as an idiot 
(which i found worryingly easy yesterday). If I don't know what Grafana 
is, then mention of 'Grafana dashboards' or 'adding dashboards to 
Grafana' prompts a question 'what is Grafana?'.

I think we want to mention Grafana, for many reasons, but I hope that 
'Creating a dashboard in Grafana' prompts the question 'where is 
Grafana?' and that users unfamiliar with the name will intuit it as an 
App/Location instead of a new piece in a poorly fitting jigsaw.

(Jose, I like your addition of context, mentioning the metrics service, 
but I'm hoping that will be obvious to the user by location of the 
Grafana topics and the introductory text.)

Paul


On 02/06/2018 08:28 AM, Jose Miguel Gallas Olmedo wrote:
> "Adding a Grafana dashboard [to the metrics service]"?
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> On 5 February 2018 at 20:28, David Martin <davmarti at redhat.com 
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>     From the docs here
>     http://docs.grafana.org/guides/getting_started/#dashboards-panels-rows-the-building-blocks-of-grafana
>     <http://docs.grafana.org/guides/getting_started/#dashboards-panels-rows-the-building-blocks-of-grafana>
>     it talks about creating a dashboard, and that dashboards are at
>     the core of Grafana.
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>     So, 'creating a dashboard in Grafana'?
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>     On Mon, 5 Feb 2018 18:04 Paul Wright, <pwright at redhat.com
>     <mailto:pwright at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>         //taking cover already as I'm about to ask people to name things
>
>         You don't add a table to Postgres, you add a table to a database,
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>         You don't Firefox a web site.
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>         and in general, you don't add <item> to <product>, you add
>         <item> to
>         <function or component>
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>         so, I don't like the phrase 'adding a dashboard to Grafana'
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>         I suppose we might 'add a dashboard to the Grafana instance',
>         but that
>         seems wordy,
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>         And everyone is busy, so I'm going to say either:
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>         a) add a dashboard to the Grafana instance
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>         b) add a dashboard to <AeroGear Reports>
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>         Note: I've spoken to a few ppl about this, and they're looking
>         at me
>         funny, but I'd like to point out that this is what I'm basing
>         my view on
>         the fact that a dashboard is not supposed to be a mere
>         visualization:
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>         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_(business)
>         <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard_%28business%29>
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>         Paul
>         (waiting for all the counter examples)
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