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[BUG] overview dashboard with 2 versions of web_log plugin is confusing #347
Description
When on a single war room, there are some nodes with web_log from python.d.plugin and web_log from go.d.plugin the charts do not always match and the result is confusing.
The problem
web_log plugin exists in 2 versions. The old one written in python and a new one written in go.
When we re-write a plugin, we should make the most to have the same chart_ids, the same dimensions, the same contexts and the same families.
If this cannot be done for whatever reason (e.g. we need to improve the charts), then the cloud should create 2 separate sections in the menu:
web log (python.d.plugin)web log (go.d.plugin)
And have separate sections for them.
The way they are merged now, it makes the dashboard very confusing.
Activity
ktsaou commentedon Mar 16, 2022
cc: @ilyam8
cakrit commentedon Jun 1, 2022
Is this for the cloud or for the agent?
The suggestions are very open ended. What's the course of action?
MrZammler commentedon Jun 3, 2022
Is this still valid since netdata/netdata#12796 was merged?
hugovalente-pm commentedon Jun 6, 2022
thanks for sharing this @MrZammler , with this release this will only happen for older agent versions.
the topic of older agent versions was discussed and it was agreed that supporting legacy and current versions can be a huge effort, we should ask our users to update their agent's version to the latest. for that we can leverage a UI component (that we already have) to flag that to get the best experience with Cloud users need to update their agents
@ktsaou @cakrit are you ok with this?
cakrit commentedon Jun 6, 2022
I'm fine with this. Closing and it can be reopened if @ktsaou wants a different solution.