Every team seems to have their own Status boards yet there are very few generic solutions to this problem.
I asked my coworker to write a framework for building status boards so that people can just focus on the problem of displaying their data. The result is a great Ruby on Rails based system that provides a WYSIWYG editor for doing your layouts and a simple plugin system that let you build almost any kind of status board.
The framework takes care of all the hard things like managing the display and layout, refreshing your boards, saving of layouts and doing later edits. We’ve built it as opensource in the hope that there will be community contributed plugins.
You can see how the board looks in action below:
What you’re seeing in the green dots are Nagios service groups and their current status, some internal metrics of users, a Cacti graph and a CPU graph that is read from a JSON file.
You can see a video of the editor in action and a bit about the plugin infrastructure here also there is a wiki page and you can grab the source on GitHub. We still have some rough edges to smooth over so we’d appreciate any feedback.
Lastly if you like it and think you might use it one day please vote for us at the Ultimate Wall Board competition!
