#Use colors for highlights

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full elbow
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Hello, this should be considered as a feature request.

Do it will be possible to have colors in highlights panels as it was in 1.* version? For instance, in Ontap cluster dashboard there were green/amber/red background based on value.

I think they were very useful

Thanks!

raw gull
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@full elbow Yes, we have recently removed background colors from various panels as we found that there was no one-size-fits-all solution for the different Ontap Hardwares. If you have any specific panels where you would like to see the colors reinstated, please let us know.

full elbow
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@raw gull for instance, in Ontap: Cluster, highlights:

  • top nodes read/write latency
  • top nodes cpu utilization
  • top nodes disk utilization

If you prefer end user customization could you point me to the right way to have custom dashboards and let them "survive" to upgrades? We're using the docker-compose mode to fire up harvest.

Thank you very much

raw gull
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Thank you, @full elbow. We appreciate your input and will definitely look into it.

In the Compose workflow, Harvest's dashboards are automatically imported using Grafana's provisioned dashboard support (https://grafana.com/docs/grafana/latest/administration/provisioning/#dashboards). The Harvest Grafana folder is mounted as a volume (https://github.com/NetApp/harvest/blob/main/prom-stack.tmpl#L43), and the dashboards are imported into folders based on the files defined in:

https://github.com/NetApp/harvest/blob/main/grafana/dashboards/7mode.yml
https://github.com/NetApp/harvest/blob/main/grafana/dashboards/cdot.yml
https://github.com/NetApp/harvest/blob/main/grafana/dashboards/storageGrid.yml

If you want to create new dashboards, we recommend that you either use a similar configuration or import them directly from the Grafana UI. However, it's best not to modify the default Harvest dashboards, as they will get overwritten during upgrades. Instead, we suggest creating your new custom dashboards in a separate Grafana folder. This ensures that your changes are preserved even after upgrades, and these new folder dashboards will persist in Grafana's volume (https://github.com/NetApp/harvest/blob/main/prom-stack.tmpl#L42).

If you do make changes to the default dashboards, you can still recover them using Grafana's versioning of dashboards. However, it's always best to avoid modifying the default dashboards and creating new ones in a separate folder for better manageability and upgradability.

raw gull