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Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by mwexler »

mxuribe wrote: post #6

This seems pretty cool. Though running it as an intrAnet app is unexpected.

Though in many corporate settings, that's where you'd expect to see it. Many externally facing dash frameworks require too many dependencies; this one went lighter in some ways b/c they assume that it's behind a wall and in a trusted environment.

http://www.cyclotron.io/faq.html:

"Can I Use Cyclotron to Host Dashboards on the Internet?

It is not recommended to deploy Cyclotron as-is in a public setting. Cyclotron was designed to be used in a corporate intranet environment, rather than for public dashboards. In addition, it's possible to create malicious dashboards using the extensibility features of Cyclotron. Allowing untrustworthy users to create dashboards is not recommended."

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by doublerebel »

mrkmcknz wrote: post #14

There seems to be a plethora of these open source dashboard builder systems. I just want to pay for a hosted version that isn't going to be $1k monthly and require me to build "plugins" to do something that is akin to an API call.

I've considered offering a hosted version of Godot2/Riemann+dash. What would be your main data sources? Would you pay $100/mo?

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by ausjke »

weego wrote: post #11
wrkronmiller wrote: post #7

How does this compare to something like Grafana? https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Can I just take a moment, and I apologise up front for singling you out for this one, to say how much I hate comments like this, even more that they get upvoted. There's always some arbitrary software mentioned that is often barely related even tangentially and expect someone else to reply with the info. If you want to know how it differs, YOU look it up and if the outcome of that research is interesting enough YOU p…

no I like these short posts too, even though with more info it will be more helpful. Providing related links is still useful, it took me less than one minute to check out quickly. Thanks.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by coredog64 »

wrkronmiller wrote: post #7

How does this compare to something like Grafana? https://github.com/grafana/grafana

I like Grafana. I use Grafana. I've got Grafana open in another tab right now. For all that, Grafana ain't all that and a bag of chips.

Grafana is very hard to extend with new visualizations. It uses "flot", a JavaScript library that hasn't seen a commit in Github in 2 and a half years. The documentation is poor.

There is definitely a need for dashboard software that allows for more complex custom visualizations -- I'll be looking closely at this.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by ohstopitu »

omouse wrote: post #2

I never understand why people choose MIT when they create something valuable and don't go for AGPL or GPL. Looks good though :D

Since we are talking about licenses, is there a license that is as permissive as MIT but one that requires you to give credit for your work?

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by hacktothefuture »

ausjke wrote: post #23
weego wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can I just take a moment, and I apologise up front for singling you out for this one, to say how much I hate comments like this, even more that they get upvoted. There's always some arbitrary software mentioned that is often barely related even tangentially and expect someone else to reply with the info. If you want to know how it differs, YOU look it up and if the outcome of that research is interesting enough YOU p…

no I like these short posts too, even though with more info it will be more helpful. Providing related links is still useful, it took me less than one minute to check out quickly. Thanks.

I agree with you! This is how I found VueJS when someone made a similar, tangentially related post which was essentially, "Yea but I like VueJS much better for reason x". It exposed me to something I didn't know about.

Re: Cyclotron: A web application for constructing dashboards

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Post by dsjoerg »

weego wrote: post #11
wrkronmiller wrote: post #7

How does this compare to something like Grafana? https://github.com/grafana/grafana

Can I just take a moment, and I apologise up front for singling you out for this one, to say how much I hate comments like this, even more that they get upvoted. There's always some arbitrary software mentioned that is often barely related even tangentially and expect someone else to reply with the info. If you want to know how it differs, YOU look it up and if the outcome of that research is interesting enough YOU p…

I disagree 100% with you. I love comments like GP. Any new tool should be considered in comparison to the other tools one might use for the same job.

Is Grafana "barely related even tangentially"? No it is quite related.

Have the creators of Cyclotron considered how it compares to existing tools? Probably, and they should come forward and be open about it.

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