Kraken :: The Free Ceph Dashboard is Finally Live

Kraken is a Free ceph dashboard for monitoring and statistics. Special thanks to Donald Talton for this beautiful dashboard.

Installing Kraken

• Install Prerequisites

# yum install git

# yum install django

# yum install python-pip

# pip install requests

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): requests in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Cleaning up...

# pip install django

Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): django in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages

Cleaning up...

# yum install screen

• Create a new user account

# useradd kraken

• Clone kraken from github

# cd /home/kraken

# git clone https://github.com/krakendash/krakendash

Cloning into 'krakendash'...

remote: Counting objects: 511, done.

remote: Compressing objects: 100% (276/276), done.

remote: Total 511 (delta 240), reused 497 (delta 226)

Receiving objects: 100% (511/511), 1.53 MiB | 343.00 KiB/s, done.

Resolving deltas: 100% (240/240), done.

• Exceute api.sh and django.sh one by one , these would get launched in screens , use ctrl A  and D  to detach from screen

# ./api.sh

[detached from 14662.api]

# ./django.sh

[detached from 14698.django]

# ps -ef | grep -i screen

root     14662     1  0 07:29 ?        00:00:00 SCREEN -S api sudo ceph-rest-api -c /etc/ceph/ceph.conf --cluster ceph -i admin

root     14698     1  0 07:30 ?        00:00:00 SCREEN -S django sudo python krakendash/kraken/manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

root     14704 14472  0 07:30 pts/0    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i screen

• Open your browser and navigate to http://localhost:8000/

• Great you have a Ceph GUI dashboard running now :-)
• Watch out this space for new features of kraken