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ASCII Dashboards!

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There are quite a few dashboards out there -  from roll your own, through pretty ones like Dashbling, to big/fancy ones like Tableau . And then, there are ones like this - designed for people who spend most of their time on the command line and don't have the luxury of multiple monitors (yes. It's possible. And not just a money thing - ever worked from your laptop? On the road?). Meet WTF from Chris Cummer , which is - as you can imagine - a fully ASCII based dashboard. It's got modules for the stuff you'd probably use, like  GitHub JIRA and more, including New Relic, OpsGenie, and more. There is also support for CmdRunner, text files, and such with, of course, the option to add in your own if you need something specific. Configuration is YAML based in the ~/.wtf/config.yml but you can override that if you so desire. And yes, if a module needs environment variables, it gets it out of your environment (so, so, simple) It’s still in early stages , bu...

Dashboards for your Dev Stuff

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There really is no end to the number and style of dashboards that you can pull together for your internal activities. There really are any number of options, from cloud stuff like  Atlassian  to  Klipfolio  to  Tableau . Then again, there is always requirements for stuff that slips through the cracks, things that you really don’t want to locate in “somebody else’s cloud” for a variety of reasons. Think  security ,  regulatory   restrictions ,  privacy ,  stealth , or even “ ‘cos the boss sez. so ”. Usually you go with some form of  roll your own in this case, right? Well, check out  Dashbling , a React based tool to generate dashboards   that actually looks good!  And yeah, pretty easy to pull together too  . It’s simple, but good enough in it’s capabilities to cover quite a variety of use cases Deployment is docker based Data can be pushed to it via REST, or streamed in using NodeJS components Widgets ...