Hey Eric, Thanks for the feedback! At Cloudera, we use Get Satisfaction for customer comments; in the future, we'd love to have you post to http://getsatisfaction.com/cloudera/products/cloudera_cloudera_desktop with your feedback on the product.
I agree that large clusters require different visualization techniques than small clusters. The Desktop metaphor will allow anyone to build system monitoring applications that target specific scenarios, e.g. very large clusters. The UI design for the Cluster Health dashboard that we shipped on Friday is one take on system monitoring and is intended to provide increased utility for the vast majority of Hadoop clusters we see in practice, which are under 200 nodes. We're certainly looking forward to folks breaking Cloudera Desktop in all sorts of ways and iterating on the product until we get it right. Regards, Jeff On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 6:11 PM, Eric Yang <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the Cloudera Desktop demo for the Web based management UI. It is > more into tasks oriented functions instead of system monitoring. > > > > http://www.cloudera.com/desktop > > Cloudera Desktop has similar use cases that I envisioned for chukwa. The > only difference is the UI model. There are many element aren¹t scalable in > their model. For example, the system monitoring are showing as grid of > green and red lights. It probably won¹t scale beyond 200 nodes. Chukwa > has > visualization and summarization of the system state in heatmap. Which > provides much more useful visualization for large scale cluster. Something > to think about. > > Regards, > Eric > >
