Performance portal/planning

software

new tool or just reconfigure gdash with a bunch more dashboards? can gdash currently do anything besides graphite?

icinga (aka nagios)
ganglia
graphite/diamond/statsd
logstash (stats for searches in a way that it could be public. or maybe also included in a potential private perf dash). e.g. top X mediawiki exceptions by file/linenumber.
tendril/dbtree
watchmouse
smokeping?
torrus
analytics output? e.g. signpost traffic report type stuff. or anything from x-analytics header, eventlogging, ttfb/total time per req according to varnish/protoproxy. Extension:NavigationTiming data
ishmael maybe. should there also be a private perf dash?

overview(s) and then also dash per service? (e.g. swift, redis, hhvm, php5, apache, apc, )
need an interface where people can test out potential new dashboards before they are deployed for all dash users and shares syntax with the on disk conf (or at least generates syntax for checkin to git)
- user's custom creations should be permalinkable so that they can be bookmarked or shared
????

should be relatively language agnostic
- avoid embedded scripting in the middle of config
- we should potentially (depending on the new tool) be able to keep using the same config even if we switch tools
simple flat files? maybe yaml. maybe compile at deploy-time with jinja if needed
compare to gdash format (which I haven't looked at in a while)