Hi Dev team We have a good bi-weekly meeting yesterday. After the thinking and discussion with Qiuxia(our UI committer), Hongtao Gao(PMC) and Bas van Beek(Zipkin core maintainer). I want to add these features to SkyWalking 8. 1. Support customizable dashboard, users could add metrics dashboard by using metrics name and entity type. So, any new metrics in the OAL could be visualized directly. The prototype design will provide later, you could consider it as a native version grafana page. 2. Metrics network interface provided for service/instance/endpoint dimensionalities. 3. Prometheus integration, we could accept or fetch metrics from the Prometheus, and use OAL to analyze those metrics.
The deep discussion including online meetings is welcome, I could set up one for people interested. And I want to add this into SkyWalking 8, one side, give more time to the agent team(PHP, .net, and nodejs are not ready yet) to follow new protocol, the other is we could have a more clear milestone of 8 as a totally new version. Right now, I will lead on this whole thing, +高洪涛@skywalking <[email protected]> will deal with Prometheus/OpenMetrics/OpenTelemetry metrics APIs. +Fan Fine <[email protected]> will lead at the UI side. The timeline of this should be one month. WDYT? And if any of you decide to join this new feature development, especially for PMC/Committer, please let me know. This is a challenge and an important new feature. Sheng Wu 吴晟 Twitter, wusheng1108
