RFC: Link Application Metrics with Chaos Experiments #38
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| This feature is all about Chaos Dashboard, would not affect anything with other | ||
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| We would use Grafana as the source of application metrics, and use Grafana Panel |
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This seems weird. If the goal is to correlate chaos experiments with user applications, then why we don't just correlate with the metrics directly? Grafana itself is the UI/display layer.
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I will try to answer all of the following questions together, but my understanding may not be as accurate as @STRRL and @cwen0, feel free to @ them.
Overall, this is more of an exploration. The goal is to bring users an integrated interface that includes experiments, workflows, and panels rendered from data obtained through the grafana API.
To achieve this, we want to be able to fetch the grafana panel data through the grafana API and then customize the rendering in the chaos dashboard. We will take the panel as the smallest unit and store it as a resource so that any chaos can associate the panel and combine their active time with the original panel data.
Users can simply click Share this panel, paste the link into the chaos dashboard's interface, and associate anything Chaos Mesh related with the panel's data.
It's an all-in-one experience where users no longer need to install plugins, configure the API address, and complicate their panels.
But that doesn't mean that we're going to abandon grafana datasource, we want to make it more of a community-driven project, and any good ideas and suggestions we have will be added to the datasource plugin if any.
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But I still want to make the point that it is extremely difficult to get close to the grafana ecosystem by way of plugins, and as someone who has had hands-on experience, writing plugins is painful (there is no extensive documentation, and I can only try to write them by referring to the source code of some plugins). I think this will make it fundamentally difficult to attract more people to participate in plugin development.
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| Grafana, for user to tuning their charts. | ||
| - Choose other Grafana alternative integration, like Datadog, Elastic stack, New |
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Grafana is the only frontend UI. But we are comparing it with Datadog, Elastic, which are the whole observability stack, including UI, metrics collecting, storage, etc. I don't think these are good examples here. Does it make sense to compare between these?
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| We already have a grafana plugin as mark annotations on grafana dashboard. There | ||
| are also feature overlapping between that grafana plugin and this new feature. | ||
| It might take more effort to keep behaviors consistent. |
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Why not add the link feature in the Grafana datasource? Like currently how trace, exemplars, metrics and logs correlations are implemented? This seems less effort and can do the same thing.
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| - It would prevent data loss when the Pod chaos-dashboard is deleted/recreated. |
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Maybe it's time to reconsider how to treat our data in chaos-dashboard?
Was it designed as persisted or volatile? @g1eny0ung
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It's hard for me to give an idea right now because it seems that both approaches have their advantages and disadvantages. I'll give it some more thought. 🤔
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