jquery-ui-timepicker-addon

[dmoll1974]

Hi guys,

First of all: I think Orion is the best looking Graphite dashboard alternative I have seen so far, nice work!

We intend to use Orion to present load test related data and use the graphs in our acceptance test reports. For that reason it would be great if I could select a specific time range in hours:minutes using the date time picker. I have notices you included
jquery-ui-timepicker-addon.js in your project, but it seems you haven't implemented it (as far as I can tell not being a developer :-)

Do you have plans to implement this feature or are there good reasons not to?

Best regards,

Daniel

[karankurani]

Thanks for the kind words Daniel!

When you add a graph to your dashboard, you usually pick a default time range you want to show the data for. And you can specify that span in hours (if required). For all our use cases having the default view show the data in hours was fine - and then whenever a user wanted to go for a deep dive back in time they usually wanted to go back in spans of days.

And highcharts allows to drill down in a minute range through its intuitive UI if required.

I am not sure what you pick in the default range. Is the default range useful in your use case?

[dmoll1974]

Hi Kurani,

Thanks for your reply, I'll try to explain our use case :-)

If we run load tests for a release we might run several test runs in one day. It would be very convenient for us to use the datetimepicker to select the exact starttime and endtime of a run a have to apply to all the graphs in a dashboard. In a typical load test dashboard we would have up to 10-20 metrics so it would take quite some time to select all the time ranges manually for each test, using either the HighCharts slider or the Orion dashboard configuration screen.

[pcockwell]

That seems reasonable. I don't believe it would be too difficult to add
this, so I will look into it over the Xmas break.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:41 AM, dmoll1974 [email protected] wrote:

Hi Kurani,

Thanks for your reply, I'll try to explain our use case :-)

If we run load tests for a release we might run several test runs in one
day. It would be very convenient for us to use the datetimepicker to select
the exact starttime and endtime of a run a have to apply to all the graphs
in a dashboard. In a typical load test dashboard we would have up to 10-20
metrics so it would take quite some time to select all the time ranges
manually for each test, using either the HighCharts slider or the Orion
dashboard configuration screen.

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[dmoll1974]

Thanks, much appreciated!