We have Camunda Cockpit as a great tool for monitoring and operations. But roles and requirements for monitoring and operations always differ in our real-life projects – so we allow plugins for Cockpit. In the last 48 hours (on our Camunda hackdays) we implemented a “plugin store” for the existing community plugins – so everybody can much easier try out plugins or see what plugins exist.
The plugin store scans various GitHub repositories and searches for plugin metadata. And we compiled a list of all default plugins included in the standard distribution (as most of the cockpit functionality is implemented as plugin). You can browse through all plugins easily:
Try it out: https://camunda.org/plugins/
After collecting plugins you can:
- download the cockpit.war: In the background this clones the GitHub repository and does a Maven build for all plugins. Then a cockpit Maven project is created which does an overlay of the original cockpit and adds all plugins as dependency. This generates the cockpit.war which then is provided as download.
- download the pom.xml and index.html: You can download the pom.xml used to generate cockpit and build it yourself. The index.html must be included in cockpit to exclude default plugins.
- save the configuration: You will get a unique URL to access the configuration later on – or to send it to your colleagues.
Try it out and give us feedback in the forum. If you want to develop own plugins these links may be convenient for you – so you can help filling our plugin store immediately:
- Maven archetype for cockpit plugins: https://github.com/camunda/camunda-archetypes/tree/master/camunda-archetype-cockpit-plugin
- How-to develop a cockpit plugin: https://docs.camunda.org/latest/real-life/how-to/#cockpit-how-to-develop-a-cockpit-plugin
- Cockpit plugins in the User Guide: https://docs.camunda.org/latest/guides/user-guide/#cockpit-plugins
Thanks guys (Christian, Falko and Ingo) – we were a great team. Can’t wait for hackdays 2015!
