Hi Roger, I don't know if it answers your needs but you have a search tool bar to find any element on the canvas and quickly access it. In terms of monitoring, you have the "Summary" panel available from the menu. It gives you a way to quickly display information about everything on the canvas.
Pierre 2016-10-03 5:26 GMT+02:00 Roger Marin < [email protected]>: > Hi all, > > > > We are looking at using NiFi to replace some of our existing (batch, > microbatch) Data Ingestion & ETL/ELT processes but we have a few concerns > around the “Canvas” interface. > > > > From a developer perspective the Canvas view is OK but we feel that it’s > not really suitable from an operational point of view. For instance, we > are looking at eventually having hundreds, perhaps even thousands of > Process Groups running in production, we really need a way to easily search > and monitor any running process groups at any given time. > > > > We were initially thinking of leveraging things like the ELK stack to > build some kind of dashboard but that doesn’t give us the flexibility we > need, e.g. if we need to stop a given process group or restart it we would > still need to use the canvas view for that, given this we are looking at > leveraging the NiFi API to build a new “operational” interface that we > could use to monitor and perform basic actions on running process groups > (start, stop, schedule), as well as quickly search and visualize running > processors and process groups. > > > > I am not sure if this is something that’s already being worked on (I > couldn’t find anything in JIRA) but I would like to know how other NiFi > users in production are getting around this (if it’s even an issue for > anyone else at all…). > > > > Regards, > > Roger > > > > >
