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Descriptions of features that we will present to the respondents.
## Guidelines
- Clear and sufficiently detailed description that sets the feature into
necessary system context.
- Simple language without GitLab lingo or sales pitching.
- Simple language without GitLab lingo or sales pitching
- Describe proper features, not MVCs.
### Feature description structure
- Feature: What can the user see in the UI
- Behavior: What does it do
- Value: Why do we want to introduce it
### Questions
In the survey the questions about feature will be asked in a following way:
@@ -25,39 +30,97 @@ In the survey the questions about feature will be asked in a following way:
- I can tolerate it
- I dislike it
## Current experience
Even though we will try to add as much context to each feature description, it
is still necessary to provide at least general explanation of what system
are we talking about.
## Current features
- GitLab monitoring is... Consists of dashboards.
- Dashboard consists of a number of panels. Each panel can contain a chart,
a numerical indicator or a static markdown text. It is possible to create new
and delete existing dashboards.
- Configuration of each dashboard is done by editing its configuration yaml file.
- Alerts that are set on a metric are visualized on the metric chart.
## New features
### Dashboard level
##### ⭐Import dashboard templates to create new dashboards
Templates for yaml configuration files
that you can choose when creating new dashboards.
Templates contain basic file structure, configuration examples and comments
to speed up the dashboard creation process and improve consistency across dashboards.
##### ⭐Add variables to a dashboard
Interactive 'quick configuration panel'
where you can tune specific variables of the dashboard right in the dashboard UI.
It will allow you to have smaller number of dashboards created and therefore
make dashboard management simpler.
<img src='./image_5.png' width=600px />
##### ⭐Out of the box dashboard for monitoring different technologies and services
A set of out-of-the-box dashboards for the most common technologies and services
that are configured automatically when you set up monitoring in GitLab.
It will improve experience of users that just started using the monitoring
features of GitLab.
##### ⭐Ability to delete out of the box dashboards from Metrics
##### ⭐Group dashboards into folders
Dashboard folders in the dropdown
that you can group your dashboards in
to improve organization of your dashboards.
##### ⭐Add tags to dashboard for easier search
Tags with searchable keywords
that you can assign to dashboards.
It will allow you to find dashboards faster.
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currently its not well defined.-->
##### ⭐Add a special panel with custom hyperlinks
A special panel with a list of custom hyperlinks
so you can drill down to a tool of your choice (e.g. another dashboard or external tool)
right from the dashboard UI.
To speed up navigation between different tools.
<img src='./image_1.png' width=600px />
## Features
##### ⭐Rearange panels using drag and drop
A possibility
to rearrange panels using drag and drop rather than by editing the yaml file.
Rearrange panels using drag and drop
<img src='./image.png' width=600px />
Resize a panel manually
##### ⭐Resize panels with cursor
A possibility
to resize panels using cursor rather than by editing the yaml file.
Drill down from a dashboard into another dashboard
### Panel level
Drill down from a chart to another chart
##### ⭐Add custom hyperlinks to the options menu of a panel
Custom hyperlink in the options menu of a panel,
so you can drill down to a tool of your choice (e.g. another dashboard or external tool)
right from the relevant panel.
To speed up navigation between different tools.
Drill down to an external source
<img src='./image_2.png' width=600px />
Add annotations to a chart
##### ⭐Annotate metric charts
Annotation, a vertical line in a chart that shows custom message on hover,
so you can manually highlight an important point within the chart.
To improve collaboration and informativeness of the chart.
Add tag to a dashboard
<img src='./image_3.png' width=600px />
Group dashboard into folders
##### ⭐Configure alert directly from a metric chart
A contextual alert configuration popup openable from within the metric chart
where you can configure alerts without the necessity to navigate to a dedicated alert configuration page.
It will improve the speed of alert configuration and provide better awareness of the underlying metric.
Configure alert from a metric chart
##### ⭐Add thresholds that do not trigger alerts
See the threshold on a metric chart
<img src='./image_4.png' width=600px />
Change the appearance of the line on a chart (color, width, etc...)
Current experience: Thresholds and alerts are tightly coupled
Feature: Allow the users to set and see diffrent thresholds without triggering an alert
Out of the box dashboard for monitoring different technologies and services
##### ⭐Change the appearance of the line on a chart (color, width, dotted line, etc..)
Ability to correlate between metric chart and logs
##### ⭐Ability to correlate between metric chart and logs
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