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Metrics dashboards on terminal (a grafana inspired terminal version)
https://github.com/slok/grafterm

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# Grafterm [![CircleCI][circleci-image]][circleci-url] [![Go Report Card][go-reportcard-image]][go-reportcard-url]



Visualize metrics dashboards on the terminal, like a simplified and minimalist version of [Grafana] for terminal.



![grafterm red dashboard](/img/grafterm-red-compressed.gif)



## Features



- Multiple widgets (graph, singlestat, gauge).

- Multiple datasources usage.

- User stored datasources.

- Override dashboard datasource ID to different datasource ID configured by the user.

- Custom dashboards based on JSON configuration files.

- Extensible metrics datasource implementation (Prometheus and Graphite included).

- Templating of variables.

- Auto time interval adjustment for queries.

- Auto unit formatting on widgets.

- Fixed and adaptive grid.

- Color customization on widgets.

- Configurable autorefresh.

- Single binary and easy usage/deployment.



## Installation



Download the binaries from [releases]



## Running options



Exit with `q` or `Esc`



### Simple



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json

```



### Relative time



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -d 48h

```



### Refresh interval



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -r 2s

```



### Debugging



When grafterm doesn't show anything may be that has errors getting metrics or similar. There is available a `--debug` flag that will write a log on `grafterm.log` (this path can be override with `--log-path` flag)



Read the log



```bash

tail -f ./grafterm.log

```



And run grafterm in debug mode.



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json  -d 48h -r 2s --debug

```



### Fixed time



Setting a fixed time range to visualize the metrics using duration notation. In this example is start at `now-22h` and end at `now-20h`



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -s 22h -e 20h

```



Setting a fixed time range to visualize the metrics using timestamp [ISO 8601] notation.



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -s 2019-05-12T12:32:11+02:00 -e 2019-05-12T12:35:11+02:00

```



### Replacing dashboard variables



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -v env=prod -v job=envoy

```



### Replacing dashboard datasource configuration



Replace dashbaord `prometheus` datasource with user datasource `thanos-prometheus` (check [Datasources](#datasources) section):



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -a "prometheus=thanos-prometheus"

```



Replace dashboard `prometheus` datasource with user datasource `thanos-prometheus` available on `/tmp/my-datasources.json` user datasource configuration file:



```bash

grafterm -c ./mydashboard.json -a "prometheus=thanos-prometheus" -u /tmp/my-datasources.json

```



## Dashboard



Check [this][cfg-md] section that explains how a dashboard is configured. Also check [dashboard examples][dashboard-examples]



## Datasources



Datasources are the way grafterm knows how to retrieve the metrics for the dashboard.



check available types and how to configure in [this][cfg-md] section.



**If you want support for a new datasource type, open an issue or send a PR**



### Overriding dashboard datasources



Dashboard referenced datasources on the queries can be override.



#### User datasource



Grafterm dashboards can have default datasources but the user can override these datasources using a datasources config file. This file has the same format as the dashboard configuration file but will ignore anything other than the `datasources` block. Example:



```json

{

  "version": "v1",

  "datasources": {

    "prometheus": {

      "prometheus": { "address": "http://127.0.0.1:9090" }

    },

    "localprom": {

      "prometheus": { "address": "http://127.0.0.1:9091" }

    },

    "thanos": {

      "prometheus": { "address": "http://127.0.0.1:9092" }

    },

    "m3db": {

      "prometheus": { "address": "http://127.0.0.1:9093" }

    },

    "victoriametrics": {

      "prometheus": { "address": "http://127.0.0.1:8428" }

    },

    "wikimedia": {

      "graphite": { "address": "https://graphite.wikimedia.org" }

    }

  }

}

```



If the dashboard has defined a datasource configuration with the ID `my-ds` reference, and the user datasources has this same datasource ID, grafterm will use the user defined one when the queries in the dashboard reference this ID.



The user datasources location can be configured with this priority (from highest to lowest):



- If `--user-datasources` explicit flag is used, it will use this.

- If `GRAFTERM_USER_DATASOURCES` env var is set, it will use this.

- As a fallback location will check `{USER_HOME}/grafterm/datasources.json` exists.



#### Alias



Apart from overriding the dashboard datasources IDs that match with the user datasources, the user can force an alias with the form `dashboard-ds-id=user-ds-id`.



For example, the dashboard uses a datasource named `prometheus-2b`, and we want to use our local prometheus configured on the user datasources as `localprom`, we could use the alias flag like this: `-a "prometheus-2b=localprom"`, now every query the dashboard widgets make to `prometheus-2b` will be made to `localprom`.



## Kudos



This project would not be possible without the effort of many people and projects but specially [Grafana] for the inspiration, ideas and the project itself, and [Termdash] for the rendering of all those fancy graphs on the terminal.



[circleci-image]: https://img.shields.io/circleci/project/github/slok/grafterm/master.svg

[circleci-url]: https://circleci.com/gh/slok/grafterm

[go-reportcard-image]: https://goreportcard.com/badge/github.com/slok/grafterm

[go-reportcard-url]: https://goreportcard.com/report/github.com/slok/grafterm

[grafana]: https://grafana.com/

[termdash]: https://github.com/mum4k/termdash

[releases]: https://github.com/slok/grafterm/releases

[cfg-md]: /docs/cfg.md

[dashboard-examples]: /dashboard-examples

[iso 8601]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[prometheus]: http://prometheus.io