GrafPAD

GrafPAD is a Grafana panel and dashboard editing terminal tool with additional support for adding targets to Prometheus scraping and Node-RED flows.

Its aim is to easily add new panels to Grafana and new targets for Prometheus/Node-RED scraping, based off pre-made templates.

Example:

You have a Grafana dashboard with a panal showing the temperature for each sensor you have. Creating a template of the panal would allow GrafPAD to add a new sensor panal to the dashboard with the user only needing to input required information such as the panal title and data source.

Additionally, GrafPAD can then be used to automate the whole process if required, such as using GrafPAD with Ansible.

Getting Started

Prerequisites:

A minimum setup will require an existing Grafana installation. For additional functionality Prometheus xor Node-RED are required.

Installing:

GrafPAD can be installed via npm

npm install -g grafpad

Then initialise the application with

grafpad --init

Running:

GrafPAD can be used by simply entering into terminal

grafpad

For verbose output, run with -v command.

Usage:

Add Grafana panel by UID:

To add a panel to a grafana dashboard you need to find the UID of the dashboard.

Grafana dashboard UIDs can be found via the URL /d/d12SE5iRt/ or at the end of a dashboards JSON model.

Selecting Add Grafana panel by UID from the main menu and following the promts will allow you to enter custom variables into the seleted template.

On success it will display Successfully updated dashboard.

Add target to Node-RED:

Node-RED flow IDs can be be found via the URL /#flow/21ad0b6d.28f214 or in the flow information tab.

Add target to Prometheus

Templates

Grafana Panal Template:

Use {{VAR_NAME_HERE}} as string variables in the template.

Use {i{VAR_NAME_HERE}} as int variables in the template.

Panel grid positions will be automatically calculated and updated.

Panal ID will be automatically generated.

Example:

{
  "aliasColors": {},
  "bars": false,
  "dashLength": 10,
  "dashes": false,
  "datasource": "{{DATASOURCE}}",
  "fill": 1,
  "fillGradient": "{i{FILL_AMOUNT}}",
  "gridPos": {
    "h": 9,
    "w": 12,
    "x": 0,
    "y": 0
  },
  "id": 5,
  "legend": {
    "avg": false,
    "current": false,
    "max": false,
    "min": false,
    "show": true,
    "total": false,
    "values": false
  },
  "lines": true,
  "linewidth": 1,
  "nullPointMode": "null",
  "options": {
    "dataLinks": []
  },
  "percentage": false,
  "pointradius": 2,
  "points": false,
  "renderer": "flot",
  "seriesOverrides": [],
  "spaceLength": 10,
  "stack": false,
  "steppedLine": false,
  "targets": [
    {
      "groupBy": [],
      "measurement": "{{MEASUREMENT}}",
      "orderByTime": "ASC",
      "policy": "default",
      "refId": "A",
      "resultFormat": "time_series",
      "select": [
        [
          {
            "params": [
              "isOnline"
            ],
            "type": "field"
          }
        ]
      ],
      "tags": []
    }
  ],
  "thresholds": [],
  "timeFrom": null,
  "timeRegions": [],
  "timeShift": null,
  "title": "{{TITLE}}",
  "tooltip": {
    "shared": true,
    "sort": 0,
    "value_type": "individual"
  },
  "type": "graph",
  "xaxis": {
    "buckets": null,
    "mode": "time",
    "name": null,
    "show": true,
    "values": []
  },
  "yaxes": [
    {
      "format": "short",
      "label": null,
      "logBase": 1,
      "max": null,
      "min": null,
      "show": true
    },
    {
      "format": "short",
      "label": null,
      "logBase": 1,
      "max": null,
      "min": null,
      "show": true
    }
  ],
  "yaxis": {
    "align": false,
    "alignLevel": null
  }
}

Node-RED Flow Template:

Use {{VAR_NAME_HERE}} as string variables in the template.

Use {i{VAR_NAME_HERE}} as int variables in the template.

Node IDs will be automatically generated and wire link IDs will be automatically updated.

Example:

[
  {
      "id": "d419c2a0.6647f",
      "type": "ping",
      "z": "4ccf9c67.de5d94",
      "name": "",
      "host": "{{HOST}}",
      "timer": "60",
      "x": 150,
      "y": 80,
      "wires": [
          [
              "ff11aacf.905ef8"
          ]
      ]
  },
  {
      "id": "ff11aacf.905ef8",
      "type": "function",
      "z": "4ccf9c67.de5d94",
      "name": "Set Device Params",
      "func": "msg.ping = msg.payload\nmsg.devId = \"{{DEVICE_NAME}}\"\nreturn msg;",
      "outputs": 1,
      "noerr": 0,
      "x": 350,
      "y": 80,
      "wires": [
          [
              "a1b53515.d8dc48"
          ]
      ]
  },
  {
      "id": "a1b53515.d8dc48",
      "type": "link out",
      "z": "4ccf9c67.de5d94",
      "name": "TTN_LIV_PING",
      "links": [
          "4422fa4a.5e2044"
      ],
      "x": 515,
      "y": 80,
      "wires": []
  }
]

Dependencies

• yargs for command line arguments
• axios for HTTP requests
• boxen for terminal styling
• chalk for terminal styling
• prompts for user prompts
• figlet for terminal styling
• openExplorer for file exploration
• editJsonFile for JSON editing
• yaml for YAML editing
• uuidv4 for ID generation
• updateNotifier for update notifications

Roadmap

TODO

License

This project is licensed under the ISC License