User story #6278
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Feature Idea: Fancy things with colors and state data, i.e. Dependency graphs
Description
Rudder has access & knowledge of a lot of information that could be "exploited" in the most wonderful ways.
Some examples
- Dependency graphs of NCF directives (i mean, look at class conditions!)
- Visual representation of datacenter-wide rule status
ginas had this with graphviz
https://github.com/ginas/ginas/blob/master/contrib/graphviz/ginas-role-dependencies.dot
and as an image
http://i.imgur.com/DeMRCSp.png
Updated by Florian Heigl almost 10 years ago
- Description updated (diff)
Forgot one key point from my scratch note, i'll just quote it
Export AND make accessible dependency graphs for node policies
Updated by Florian Heigl almost 10 years ago
and the final twist...
it should be possible (first just in the academic meaning, but I think it really works) to use the combined info (class events + dependencies) with some fancy color thing like graphite to show a timelapse of changes.
the graphite idea is relevant to compare i.e. a spike in 500 errors and cfengine-triggered apache restarts following on the server issue.
summary of the thought:
Interface with analytics.
Updated by François ARMAND almost 10 years ago
- Priority changed from N/A to 2
I love that.
And so, we could say that Rudder is doing Big Data and Data mining, so big plus in buzz words (devops, cloud, big data is a full row in my bingo card).
More seriously, we need these dependency graph to be able to make more interesting stuff in techniques (or even generic method) and of course rule dependency management.
This will come along nicelly with the ability to tag things (rules, directives, groups, etc), and have analysis or reporting for them. Or even event-triggering based on the evolution of the analysis ("look, 42 % of my things tag "datacenter-XYZ have been in error in the last 6 hours, something is not going well")
I'm not sure exactly what we can provide and how to show it, but your propisition are a good starting point.
OK, that won't go realistically in 3.1, but I open in my text book a new major topic "do better analysis"
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE almost 10 years ago
- Category changed from 14 to Web - Config management
Updated by Benoît PECCATTE over 8 years ago
- Target version set to Ideas (not version specific)