Make output of `gdk status` more concise and less confusing
Overview
Currently, the output of gdk status (or gdk start/restart/stop) looks like:
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/gitlab-http-router: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144552) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/gitlab-topology-service: 1s, want up; run: log: (pid 4144556) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/gitlab-workhorse: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144549) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/nginx: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144548) 9141s
run: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/postgresql: (pid 4144559) 9141s, normally down; run: log: (pid 4144546) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/praefect: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144554) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/praefect-gitaly-0: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144547) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/rails-background-jobs: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144551) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/rails-web: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144550) 9141s
run: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/redis: (pid 4144558) 9141s, normally down; run: log: (pid 4144553) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/sshd: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144545) 9141s
down: /home/peter/devel/gitlab/gdk/services/vite: 9141s; run: log: (pid 4144555) 9141s
It's raw output from runit (sv status).
The output has the following issues:
- It's verbose
- The full path name is very long
- It contains PIDs and runtimes of both service and logger
- It contains
normally down
- It's confusing
- It's not obvious which service is up or down
- The runtimes are in seconds
Proposed solution
Make the runit output more concise and more human-readable by using colors and human-friendly formatting.
This would help showing service status for all cells which is currently barely readable (via gdk cells status).
Impacted categories
The following categories relate to this issue:
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gdk-reliability - e.g. When a GDK action fails to complete. -
gdk-usability - e.g. Improvements or suggestions around how the GDK functions. -
gdk-performance - e.g. When a GDK action is slow or times out.
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gdk.yml(if any) - Ruby version:
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Edited by Peter Leitzen