Uchiwa

Uchiwa is a simple dashboard for the Sensu monitoring framework, built with Node.js and AngularJS.

The dashboard is under active development, and major changes are not uncommon.

Features

• Support of multiple Sensu APIs
• Real-time updates with Socket.IO
• Client and checks stashes management
• Easily filter events, clients, stashes and events
• Simple client details view
• Easy installation

Screenshots

Getting Started

From source

• Checkout the source: git clone https://github.com/sensu/uchiwa.git
• Install bower on your system: npm install -g bower
• Install the dependencies:
  • With root user: npm install --production --unsafe-perm
  • With normal user: npm install --production
• Copy config.json.example to config.json - modify your Sensu API information. See configuration section below
• Start the dashboard: node app.js
• Open your browser: http://localhost:3000/

With packages

See Sensu documentation

Use nginx as proxy

The first thing you need is Nginx 1.3.13 or higher, since previous versions do not support websocket connections.

Then, you simply need to open up the Nginx configuration file and add the following route to your virtual server:

location / {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
  proxy_set_header Host $host;
}

In case you want the dashboard to be accessible within a certain path on the proxy, let's say /uchiwa, simply use the following block instead:

 location ~ (/uchiwa/|/socket.io/) {
  proxy_pass http://localhost:3000;
  proxy_http_version 1.1;
  proxy_set_header Upgrade $http_upgrade;
  proxy_set_header Connection "upgrade";
  proxy_set_header Host $host;

  rewrite /uchiwa/(.*) /$1 break;
}

Configuration

sensu

• host - String: The address of the Sensu API.
• ssl - Boolean: Determines whether or not the API use a SSL certificate.
• port - Integer: The port of the Sensu API. The default value is 4567.
• user - String: The username of the Sensu API. Leave empty for none.
• pass - String: The password of the Sensu API. Leave empty for none.
• path - String: The path of the Sensu API. Leave empty in case of doubt.
• timeout - Integer: Timeout for the Sensu API, in milliseconds. The default value is 5000.

uchiwa

• user - String: The username of the Uchiwa dashboard. Leave empty for none.
• pass - String: The password of the Uchiwa dashboard. Leave empty for none.
• stats - Integer: Determines the retention, in minutes, of graphics data. The default value is 10.
• refresh - Integer: Determines the interval to pull the Sensu API, in milliseconds. The default value is 10000.

Docker

This application comes pre-packaged in a docker container for easy deployment.

There are two ways of running this container:

Docker with a config file.

Make a config.json file for the application, and then launch the uchiwa container with the config mounted as a volume.

# Create a folder that will be mount as a volume to the Docker container
mkdir ~/uchiwa-config
# Copy your uchiwa config into this last folder
cp ~/uchiwa/config.json ~/uchiwa-config/config.json
# Start Docker container. It will listen on port 3000 by default
docker run -v ~/uchiwa-config:/config uchiwa/uchiwa

Docker with environment variables

You can instead use environment variables to configure the application. Host is fixed to 0.0.0.0 and port to 3000, but the other settings can be set:

• UCHIWA_USER
• UCHIWA_PASS
• UCHIWA_REFRESH

And configuring an API is done with other environment variables which are designed to fit into Docker's container links (allowing you to point uchiwa at an API just be --linking it to that container)

You can link multiple APIs by providing multiple sets of environment variables with different prefixes.

These variables are mandatory.

• API1_PORT_4567_TCP_PORT - The port for the API, usually 4567
• API1_PORT_4567_TCP_ADDR - The hostname or IP for the API

These variables are optional

• API1_UCHIWA_NAME
• API1_UCHIWA_SSL
• API1_UCHIWA_USER
• API1_UCHIWA_PASS
• API1_UCHIWA_PATH
• API1_UCHIWA_TIMEOUT

An example of starting the container with the minimum set of environment needed would be:

docker run -i -t -p 3000 -e API1_PORT_4567_TCP_PORT=3000 -e API1_PORT_4567_TCP_ADDR="1.1.1.1" uchiwa/uchiwa

Debugging

You may start the dashboard with the following command in order to enable verbose mode: NODE_ENV="development" node app.js

Contributing

Everyone is welcome to submit patches. Whether your pull request is a bug fix or introduces new classes or functions to the project, we kindly ask that you include tests for your changes. Even if it's just a small improvement, a test is necessary to ensure the bug is never re-introduced.

Testing

You should always run npm test before submitting a Pull Request.

E2E testing

1. Clone this cookbook (git clone [email protected]:palourde/uchiwa-sensu.git)
2. Boot the virtual machines (vagrant up)
3. Copy the configuration file (config.json) found on the uchiwa-sensu repo into the uchiwa repo
4. Install all dependencies (npm install)
5. Run E2E tests (npm run protractor)

Authors

• Author: Simon Plourde ([email protected])
• Contributor: Ethan Hann ([email protected])

License

MIT (see LICENSE)