steffenbrand/error-radar

Error Radar is a fullscreen dashboard to monitor build plans from various build servers that you can use on a big screen in your office.

Error Radar

Error Radar is a dashboard to monitor plans from various build servers that you can use on a big screen in your office., _(*1)

Currently supported build servers

• Bamboo (tested with 6.1.1)

Planned build servers

• Jenkins
• Travis CI

Screenshots

Dashboard

, _(*2)

Settings

, _(*3)

Installation

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.0
• A database, peferably MySQL (other databases supported by CakePHP3 are fine as well)
• A webserver, preferably nginx or Apache 2.4 (Installation and configuration of your webserver is not part of this installation guide)

Get composer

See https://getcomposer.org/, _(*4)

Install application

Go to your desired installation directory and run the following command, to install the application using composer., _(*5)

composer create-project steffenbrand/error-radar error-radar

Alternatively you could clone the git repository and run composer install afterwards., _(*6)

Create an empty database

• Preferably MySQL
• utf8_general_ci
• InnoDB

Configure database

Edit the config/app.php file., _(*7)

cd error-radar
nano config/app.php

At the top of the file you will find the Datasources array.
Edit the configuration to your needs and save., _(*8)

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// CONFIGURE YOUR DB CONNECTION HERE ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
'host'      => 'localhost',
'username'  => 'my_app',
'password'  => 'secret',
'database'  => 'my_app',
'port'      => '3306',
'driver'    => 'Cake\Database\Driver\Mysql',
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

Migrate and seed database

Run the following commands from the applications root directory to create the database and insert a default admin user., _(*9)

bin/cake migrations migrate
bin/cake migrations seed

Go for it

Login and create your categories, configure your servers and add plans. The admin default credentials (please change them immediately) are as follows:, _(*10)

user: admin
password: password

Security concerns

Error Radar stores the build servers passwords (encrypted) in the database, so make sure to ..., _(*11)

• create and use accounts that have only READ access to the build servers REST API.
• make it reachable only within your network.
• separate the application server from the database server.