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diff --git a/docs/cloud/war-rooms.md b/docs/cloud/war-rooms.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..99f9e368 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/cloud/war-rooms.md @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +--- +title: "War Rooms" +description: >- + "Netdata Cloud uses War Rooms to group related nodes and create insightful compositedashboards based on + their aggregate health and performance." +custom_edit_url: "https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/war-rooms.md" +sidebar_label: "War Rooms" +learn_status: "Published" +learn_topic_type: "Tasks" +learn_rel_path: "Operations" +--- + +War Rooms organize your connected nodes and provide infrastructure-wide dashboards using real-time metrics and +visualizations. + +Once you add nodes to a Space, all of your nodes will be visible in the _All nodes_ War Room. This is a special War Room +which gives you an overview of all of your nodes in this particular space. Then you can create functional separations of +your nodes into more War Rooms. Every War Room has its own dashboards, navigation, indicators, and management tools. + + + +## Navigation + +### Switching between views - static tabs + +Every War Rooms provides multiple views. Each view focus on a particular area/subject of the nodes which you monitor in +this War Rooms. Let's explore what view you have available: + +- The default view for any War Room is + the [Home tab](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/overview.md#home), which give you + an overview + of this space. Here you can see the number of Nodes claimed, data retention statics, user particate, alerts and more + +- The second and most important view is + the [Overview tab](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/overview.md#overview) which + uses composite + charts to display real-time metrics from every available node in a given War Room. + +- The [Nodes tab](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/nodes.md) gives you the ability to + see the status (offline or online), host details + , alarm status and also a short overview of some key metrics from all your nodes at a glance. + +- [Kubernetes tab](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/kubernetes.md) is a logical + grouping of charts regards to your Kubernetes clusters. + It contains a subset of the charts available in the _Overview tab_ + +- + +The [Dashboards tab](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/dashboards.md) +gives you the ability to have tailored made views of +specific/targeted interfaces for your infrastructure using any number of charts from any number of nodes. + +- The **Alerts tab** provides you with an overview for all the active alerts you receive for the nodes in this War Room, + you can also see alla the alerts that are configured to be triggered in any given moment. + +- The **Anomalies tab** is dedicated to + the [Anomaly Advisor](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/insights/anomaly-advisor.mdx) tool + +### Non static tabs + +If you open +a [new dashboard](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/dashboards.md), +jump to a single-node dashboard, or navigate to a dedicated alert page they will open in a new War Room tab. + +Tabs can be rearranged with drag-and-drop or closed with the **X** button. Open tabs persist between sessions, so you +can always come right back to your preferred setup. + +### Play, pause, force play, and timeframe selector + +A War Room has three different states: playing, paused, and force playing. The default playing state refreshes charts +every second as long as the browser tab is in +focus. [Interacting with a chart](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/dashboard/interact-charts.mdx) +pauses +the War Room. Once the tab loses focus, charts pause automatically. + +The top navigation bar features a play/pause button to quickly change the state, and a dropdown to select **Force Play** +, which keeps charts refreshing, potentially at the expense of system performance. + +Next to the play/pause button is the timeframe selector, which helps you select a precise window of metrics data to +visualize. By default, all visualizations in Netdata Cloud show the last 15 minutes of metrics data. + +Use the **Quick Selector** to visualize metrics from predefined timeframes, or use the input field below to enter a +number and an appropriate unit of time. The calendar allows you to select multiple days of metrics data. + +Click **Apply** to re-render all visualizations with new metrics data streamed to your browser from each distributed +node. Click **Clear** to remove any changes and apply the default 15-minute timeframe. + +The fields beneath the calendar display the beginning and ending timestamps your selected timeframe. + +### Node filter + +The node filter allows you to quickly filter the nodes visualized in a War Room's views. It appears on all views, but +not on single-node dashboards. + + + +## War Room organization + +We recommend a few strategies for organizing your War Rooms. + +**Service, purpose, location, etc.**: You can group War Rooms by a service (think Nginx, MySQL, Pulsar, and so on), +their purpose (webserver, database, application), their physical location, whether they're baremetal or a Docker +container, the PaaS/cloud provider it runs on, and much more. This allows you to see entire slices of your +infrastructure by moving from one War Room to another. + +**End-to-end apps/services**: If you have a user-facing SaaS product, or an internal service that said product relies +on, you may want to monitor that entire stack in a single War Room. This might include Kubernetes clusters, Docker +containers, proxies, databases, web servers, brokers, and more. End-to-end War Rooms are valuable tools for ensuring the +health and performance of your organization's essential services. + +**Incident response**: You can also create new War Rooms as one of the first steps in your incident response process. +For example, you have a user-facing web app that relies on Apache Pulsar for a message queue, and one of your nodes +using the [Pulsar collector](https://github.com/netdata/go.d.plugin/blob/master/modules/pulsar/README.md) begins +reporting a suspiciously low messages rate. You can create a War Room called `$year-$month-$day-pulsar-rate`, add all +your Pulsar nodes in addition to nodes they connect to, and begin diagnosing the root cause in a War Room optimized for +getting to resolution as fast as possible. + +## Add War Rooms + +To add new War Rooms to any Space, click on the green plus icon **+** next the **War Rooms** heading. on the left ( +space's) sidebar. + +In the panel, give the War Room a name and description, and choose whether it's public or private. Anyone in your Space +can join public War Rooms, but can only join private War Rooms with an invitation. + +## Manage War Rooms + +All the users and nodes involved in a particular space can potential be part of a War Room. + +Any user can change simple settings of a War room, like the name or the users participating in it. Click on the gear +icon of the War Room's name in the top of the page to do that. A sidebar will open with options for this War Room: + +1. To _change a War Room's name, description, or public/private status_, click on **War Room** tab of the sidebar. + +2. To _include an existing node_ to a War Room or _connect a new node*_ click on **Nodes** tab of the sidebar. Choose + any + connected node you want to add to this War Room by clicking on the checkbox next to its hostname, then click **+ Add + ** + at the top of the panel. + +3. To _add existing users to a War Room_, click on **Add Users**. See + our [invite doc](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/manage/invite-your-team.md) + for details on inviting new users to your Space in Netdata Cloud. + +:::note +\* This action requires admin rights for this space +::: + +### More actions + +To _view or remove nodes_ in a War Room, click on **Nodes view**. To remove a node from the current War Room, click on +the **🗑** icon. + +:::info +Removing a node from a War Room does not remove it from your Space. +::: + +## What's next? + +Once you've figured out an organizational structure that works for your team, learn more about how you can use Netdata +Cloud to monitor distributed nodes +using [real-time composite charts](https://github.com/netdata/netdata/blob/master/docs/cloud/visualize/overview.md). |