FYI, the production log interface Kibana (aka logstash) is switching from version 3 to 4, which are unfortunately incompatible. That means that you will need to recreate them. The forwarded mail provides more detail.
Cheers, Marko
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Bryan Davis bd808@wikimedia.org Date: 29 June 2016 at 01:28 Subject: [Ops] Saving kibana dashboards before the Kibana4 upgrade To: ops-l ops@lists.wikimedia.org
Erik B has been putting in a lot of work to prepare for upgrading the Elasticsearch and Kibana services in the Logstash cluster. Things are looking pretty good now for an upgrade sometime next week (2016-07-05 - 2016-07-08) [0].
As announced previously, saved Kibana dashboards are not portable from our existing Kibana3 to the new Kibana4. The current plan is to copy over to production all dashboards that have been created at https://kibana4.wmflabs.org (beta cluster test server). I'll be doing some work over the next couple of days to make sure the dashboards I can't live without have been recreated there. I would suggest that others do the same or ping me to see if I have time to port their dashboard for them.
Creating a dashboard in Kibana4 is similar to Kibana3, but there is at least one big difference. The "panels" from Kibana3 have been replaced with "visualizations" in Kibana4. A visualization exists outside of a dashboard, may or may not be associated with an existing saved query, and must be made before it can be added to a dashboard. This takes a bit of poking at to get comfortable with but all in all it's not a horrible process. There's a video on elastic.co [1] that may or may not be helpful in understanding how to port things over.
[0]: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136001 [1]: https://www.elastic.co/blog/recreating-kibana-3-dashboards-in-kibana-4
Bryan -- Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation bd808@wikimedia.org [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855
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On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Marko Obrovac mobrovac@wikimedia.org wrote:
FYI, the production log interface Kibana (aka logstash) is switching from version 3 to 4, which are unfortunately incompatible. That means that you will need to recreate them. The forwarded mail provides more detail.
This should be {{done}}.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 6:57 PM, Eric Evans eevans@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Wed, Jun 29, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Marko Obrovac mobrovac@wikimedia.org wrote:
FYI, the production log interface Kibana (aka logstash) is switching from version 3 to 4, which are unfortunately incompatible. That means that you will need to recreate them. The forwarded mail provides more detail.
This should be {{done}}.
Correction/clarification. This is done for the dashboards created/regularly used by the Services team (plus a few others). Don't let my proclamation prevent anyone from ensuring that the dashboards they care about having been converted. :)
And, if anyone needs help with a conversion, feel free to ping me, I'm happy to help.
Cheers,