Render Farm Dashboard construct to monitor Functional and Billing Metrics

[yashda]

Use Case

The render farm created and deployed using RFDK can grow and become more complex for a customer to monitor all of its components. RFDK should provide a way so that a user (Ops engineer) can monitor whole render farm from a single place.

Proposed Solution

The proposal is to add additional methods to each deadline construct which returns CDK Widget(s) to monitor.

For eg. a worker-fleet construct can expose a methods to return

1. LogQueryWidget for error logs.
2. GraphWidget for Fleet size, memory & CPU usages.
3. GraphWidget for no. of running jobs/tasks, completed vs in progress jobs/tasks.

This feature also adds a construct named ‘RenderFarmDashboard’, which creates a cloudwatch dashboard with necessary widgets for all the high-level deadline constructs eg. Respository, Render Queue, Worker Fleet & UBL Server.

A user can:

1. either modify this ‘RenderFarmDashboard’ by adding/removing widgets of their interest,
2. or create a new Dashboard and add the widgets by fetching it from different deadline constructs.

This way, a user will have a single place to monitor all the required metrics/alarms, include running costs for all the components in Render Farm.

Other

• 👋 I may be able to implement this feature request
• ⚠️ This feature might incur a breaking change

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This is a 🚀 Feature Request