Enable Dashboard

[shawnjohnson]

It would be nice to have a few chart and tables available for the administrative dashboard. Maybe start simple with an activity graph of the last few hours, already filtered to certain API's.

[gbinal]

@GUI - it seems to me that this is present when I log into the admin panel. @shawnjohnson - are you envisioning something else than what is available in /admin?

[shawnjohnson]

@gbinal When I log in, this is what I see (basically nothing)

[GUI]

Yeah, basically we have a "Dashboard" link in the admin that just loads an empty page. I've always envisioned something being there, but I've never gotten as far as really thinking about what, other than something dashboardy and high-level. For example, maybe just a few simple charts showing immediate usage trends trends, signup trends, etc. The metrics page might actually be a simple example of the type of high-level information I've thought might go on the dashboard.

There's also been recent requests on the open-source API Umbrella side of things to build out the dashboard as more customizable experience where each admin can add and remove components to the dashboard. This ticket has some more details and links to example dashboards: NREL/api-umbrella#62 This type of customizable dashboard seems like more than we probably need (at least right now), so I'm also inclined to start very simple as Shawn suggested.

Alternatively, we could also just remove the dashboard link for now and drop people into one of the main analytics pages by default after they log in. That might help clear confusion about the blank dashboard until we have firmer requirements around what we specifically want on the dashboard. Would that work for you, @shawnjohnson, or are there definitely a few aggregate things you'd find useful on a dashboard?

[GUI]

Going to go ahead and close this (after probably far too long :), since we've gotten rid of the "Dashboard" link for the nav. We're always happy to consider new ideas for dashboard-type functionality, but we can discuss any of those in more specific issues.