Dashboard

Twister2 dashboard gives you a comprehensive overview of all your jobs running in a cluster. Dashboard comes bundled with twister2's main binary build, but it runs as a separate and standalone process from twister2 framework. Due to this nature, you should manually start the dashboard, if required.

Starting dashboard

To start the dashboard, execute following command from the root directory.

./bin/twister2 dash

Configuring dashboard

Since dashboard runs as an independent component, it has a separate set of configuration files located at conf/dashboard

application.properties

This is a typical spring boot configuration file, where you can tune bunch of web & database server related parameters.

Datasource

Twister2 by default uses a file based H2 database to persist dashboard related data. However, you are free to configure any other database that suits your requirements and environment. If you are planning to use a different database, make sure to recompile dashboard server with necessary drivers.

For more on datasource related configurations, refer spring datasource documentation.

Webserver

Dashboard process spawns an embedded tomcat instance on port 8080. How ever, this can be configured to use any other port. Refer spring documentation for more information.

log4j2.xml

Dashboard uses log4J2 for logging. By default, it logs to both Console and File. You may change this behaviour as per log4j2 documentation.