TiDB Dashboard

TiDB Dashboard is a Web UI for monitoring, diagnosing and managing TiDB cluster.

Getting Started

The most easy way to use TiDB Dashboard with an existing TiDB cluster is to use the one embedded into PD: http://127.0.0.1:2379/dashboard. Currently you need PD master branch to use TiDB Dashboard.

Note: The TiDB Dashboard inside PD may be not up to date. To play with latest TiDB Dashboard, build it from source (see next section).

Contributing & Developing

If you're interested in contributing to TiDB Dashboard, checkout our help wanted issues for a list, in which we have also marked the difficulty level. We have prepared many suitable tasks.

For a detailed step-by-step contributing guide, or want to build TiDB Dashboard from source, see CONTRIBUTING.md.

⭐️ TiDB Usability Challenge (March 2 ~ May 30) ⭐️

TiDB Dashboard is also a project of TiDB Usability Challenge (UCP), where you can win prizes by contributing code!

• Learn more about TiDB Usability Challenge (UCP): Chinese, English
• See TiDB Dashboard UCP issues that you can work with.

Ask for Help

If you have any questions about development, feel free to join TiDB Dashboard SIG (Special Interest Group):

• Slack (English): #sig-dashboard
• Slack (Chinese): #sig-dashboard-china

Architecture

This repository contains both Dashboard HTTP API and Dashboard UI. Dashboard HTTP API is placed in pkg/ directory, written in Golang. Dashboard UI is placed in ui/ directory, powered by React.

TiDB Dashboard can also be integrated into PD, as follows:

For Developers How To ...

Keep session valid after rebooting the server

By default, the session secret key is generated dynamically when the server starts. This results in invalidating your previously acquired session token. For easier development, you can supply a fixed session secret key by setting DASHBOARD_SESSION_SECRET in the environment variable or in .env file like:

DASHBOARD_SESSION_SECRET=aaaaaaaaaabbbbbbbbbbccccccccccdd

The supplied secret key must be 32 bytes, otherwise it will not be effective.

Note: the maximum lifetime of a token is 24 hours by default, so you still need to acquire token every 24 hours.

Supply session token in the Swagger UI

1. Acquire a token first through /user/login in the Swagger UI.

2. Click the "Authorize" button in the Swagger UI, set value to Bearer xxxx where xxxx is the token you acquired in step 1.

   

Release new UI assets

Simply modify ui/.github_release_version. The assets will be released automatically after your change is merged to master.