aws-dashing

AWS dashboard powered by Dashing-js & Node.js

• dashing: “The exceptionally handsome dashboard framework in Ruby and Coffeescript” - https://github.com/Shopify/dashing
• dashing-js: “Port of Dashing to node.js” - https://github.com/fabiocaseri/dashing-js

Getting started

• instal Node.js
• turn config.ex.js into config.js & replace default values
• start the server: “node server.js”
• go and check the dashboard at http://localhost:3030

Supported aws services:

• EC2 instances
• Elastic Load Balancers
• EC2 Security Groups
• S3 Buckets & Objects
• Elastic IPs
• ElastiCache (clusters, nodes and security groups)
• Route 53 (hosted zones and record set)
• RDS instances
• EBS volumes and Snapshots

Notes

• JOB_REFRESH property needs ‘cron’ like syntax, the value in config.ex.js will run the cron job every 30 seconds
• Values for ‘data-max’ property of Meters widget:
  • EC2 instances: API call
  • Load Balancers: 20
  • Elastic IPs: API call
  • RDS: 40
  • ElastiCache instances: 20