Add more detailed system and container stats to Cockpit's dashboard

[loxoron218]

I would like to suggest an enhancement for the Cockpit dashboard to include more detailed system statistics, similar to what Grafana dashboards offer. Maybe even being able to edit what to show? This could include metrics on one place such as:

CPU Usage
RAM Usage
Network Traffic
Disk Usage
Podman Containers Information

I don't know if it would be possible with the current exporting tools. Maybe integration with tools like Prometheus and node_exporter to collect and display these metrics directly within Cockpit?

Having a centralized location that provides all the current functionalities plus all of this information in one view would be a killer in my opinion a feature that would make Cockpit even more powerful and user-friendly. Would this be a feasible enhancement?

Here is an example (to be fair very extense) of a Grafana dashboard that I think would be very compatible with what cockpit offers.:

[jelly]

Have you looked at our overview page with PCP enabled? We do offer basically realtime stats and historical ones with PCP. It is not Cockpit's job to replace something like Grafana but our PCP data can be exported to Grafana afaik.

The stats you mentioned are shown in cockpit:

• CPU Usage
• RAM Usage
• Network Traffic
• Disk Usage
• Podman Containers Information

Podman containers cpu/memory usage is shown as well in the overview.

[loxoron218]

Thanks for the PCP recommendation, I wasn't honestly aware of it.

Now looking at it, I still think it would be cool to be able to change how the the stats are represented visually. Like for example:

• Being able to change the graph progression from vertical to horizontal
• Being able to see the different processes and their fluctuations over time (like on the Grafana screnenshot I sent)
• Being able to change the order of the "widgets"
• Also, adding the Podman information to the same page and having everything on one site

Thanks for your polite and understanding answer! Specially towards a rather "newby" user like me :)

[jelly]

In short:

Being able to change the graph progression from vertical to horizontal

I don't see this happening soon, it would need us to re-discuss the current design.

Being able to see the different processes and their fluctuations over time (like on the Grafana screnenshot I sent)

This is definitely lacking and I am not sure if we can easily implement that with PCP information.

Being able to change the order of the "widgets"

Could be an option, but I'd say they are quite logical as is.

Also, adding the Podman information to the same page and having everything on one site

For that we cockpit-podman high cpu/memory containers should show up and then there is a link to the podman management page.

[loxoron218]

I guess not exactly what I was looking for, but thanks for your answer either way!