tessera-generate

Tessera Dashboard generation utility for the command line

Usage:
  ./tessera-generate.py --config-file=<file> --tessera-url=<url> [--create|--dashboard-id=<id>] [--title=<title>] [--layout=<layout>] [--category=<category>] [--tags=tag1,tag2,...] [-]

Options:
  -h --help                 Displays help
  -c --create               Create new dashboard
  -d --dashboard-id=<id>    Dashboard id to modify
  -f --config-file=<file>   YAML config file for dashboard templating
  -u --tessera-url=<url>    Tessera API URL
  -l --layout=<layout>      Dashboard Layout (fixed, fluid)
  -t --title=<title>        Dashboard Title
  -c --category=<category>  Dashboard Category
  -g --tags=<tag1,tag2,...> Dashboard Tags

Loop over nodes

echo web-{01..80} | ./tessera-generate.py --create --config-file=web-farm.yaml --tessera-url=http://mytessera.example.com

Example yaml configuration for --config-file

nodes:
    node: web-001--010 # you can comment the "nodes" section and provide nodes from stdin.

dashboard_metadata:
    title: system graphs
    category: Farms
    tags:
        - system
        - featured
    layout: fluid

dashboard_graphs:
    graph-1:
        title: Load average
        cellspan: 2
        options:
            palette: brewerdiv4
        query: "sortByName(aliasByMetric(collectd.{{node}}.load.load.*))"

    graph-2:
        title: Memory
        cellspan: 2
        item_type: stacked_area_chart
        query: >
            group(
                alias(collectd.{{node}}.memory.memory.used.value,"used"),
                alias(collectd.{{node}}.memory.memory.cached.value,"cached"),
                alias(collectd.{{node}}.memory.memory.buffered.value,"buffered"),
                alias(collectd.{{node}}.memory.memory.free.value,"free")
            )