The document outlines the features and future goals of Chronograf, particularly in data visualization and administration. It discusses the challenges of visualizing data from various 'things' and introduces a new host list view concept for improved clarity and functionality. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of community collaboration for sharing dashboards and expertise.

1. June 2018
Chronograf: Present & Future

2. Chronograf Goals

3. Platform
Administration
Data
Exploration
Rapid
Visualization
Sharing Expertise

4. It’s a Journey…

6. Where do we go from here?

7. Data Visualization

8. Cool!
We can visualize tabular data with Chronograf.
So what??

9. Log Analysis
• Most common adjunct use case for time series metrics
• Show me what happened around the time of…
• Bring the best of time series to logs

10. Log Analyzer

11. Log Analyzer
Filter by…
• Hosts
• Services
• Regex
• Provide Histogram of log output by time
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12. Demo

13. Cool!
Log data visualized with Chronograf.
So what??

14. Rapid Visualization
&
Problem Isolation

15. More things…more headaches
• Growth of “things” can be overwhelming
• Observing the landscape of “things” can be a real challenge
• Visualization of “things” which are in a bad state and those which
may be trending towards a bad state is critical.
– Who cares about the stuff in a healthy state!?!

16. Example: Host List

17. Re-design…
New Concept:
List View
Combines:
• table visualization
• filter for defining a common
‘where’ clause
• discrete query by column
• dashboard linking for drill-
down
Deliver new “Host List View” as
an instantiation of this concept

18. List View

19. Configure Column Data

20. Configure Column Thresholds

21. Configure Column Links

22. List View: In Action

23. Cool!
Custom List Views with Drill-Down Links.
Did I mention I really don’t like tables??
Don’t tell me…
you want a pie
chart?

24. Landscapes of Data

25. Richer visualization…
Abstrac
t
Concrete
Time

26. That would be pretty awesome!
What happened to the sharing part?

27. Community

28. Simplify Sharing of Expertise
• Easier import/export of dashboards
• More enablement around creation and contribution of dashboards
– Tie into Telegraf plug-in creation
• Define/adopt specification for collections of assets
– Dashboard(s)
– Alert threshold, etc.
• Host community collaboration site for sharing
Dashboard Land!

29. Nirvana!

30. Thank You