DjangoBot: #celery

so celerymon

needs to be awesome

I have this idea that requires javascript

a grid of currently executed tasks, new ones is appended to the end

s/executed/executing

received tasks are grey, executing tasks are yellow, successful tasks are green, and failed tasks are red

when they're finished/failed they stick around for some time, maybe failed tasks stay longer

you can click on them to get detailed information, results, tracebacks etc

asksol: sounds nice

and you can freeze the interface

non linear animation on opacity is trivial in all of the libs fwiw. so fading out in a nice way is easy enough

cool

and we need awesome graphs

I wonder what the best js lib for that is

I found this one: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

graps as in barcharts and things?

yeah, exactly

not sure what graphs to show though, but stuff like failed tasks vs total tasks

number of workers running

maybe you could even select to graph the result of a task over time :)

lots of spiffy things you can do. need some mock data to work against

yeah, indeed

or some simple setup that generates traffic

I'm going to finish the API part of celerymon first

maybe I should call my flash friend, to get some crazy 3d visuals too ;)

bah

that's cheating

asksol: but we have some old sceners in webapps. Could do milkdrop like vizualization in canvas or something :)

nice for impressing people when showing them around a server room

hehe

there should always be a 3d donut

with the audio tag you could do sounds as well. nice steady chatter for ok tasks and some kind of tick for failed or somethning

oooh, yeah

CSI style

even better, we could write a gui in visual basic and track the IPs!

(sorry)

it could generate sounds from the current state of the cluster

after a while maybe you could learn to detect failures from the sound

and then we could publish an album: cluster sounds - microsound generated by celery

would be a big hit for contemporaries

asksol: is it possible to change the name of the celeryctl queues?

sometimes when launched celery just sits doing nothing. shouldn't it be running my periodic tasks? it completely misses them

usually a flush fixes it, but sometimes not

this is what strace gives me http://pastebin.com/m1250746

any suggestions?

asksol: i know jquery is all hyped up these days, but after many years of js apis etc, i think ExtJS is the most well done framework and toolkit around. its free for opensource projects, has hands down the best grid out there and graphs as well.

it's very good for internal projects