Remotedaemon Updates: Jaeger Backup & Enhanced Observability
What developments have taken place today?
Today’s work focused on enhancing the admin dashboard’s user management and website configuration features, improving overall UI consistency, and introducing more robust OpenTelemetry tracing capabilities. Several key changes were implemented:
- Dashboard Refinements: A breadcrumb component was added to provide clearer navigation within the user and website sections of the dashboard. The application adopted a consistent
.content-sectionstyle class with padding, background color, and rounded corners for improved visual appeal across different pages, utilizing a wider variant on the homepage. Forms for user management and website configuration were redesigned with dedicated containers, save buttons, and status messages, enhancing usability. Responsive adjustments were made to ensure optimal display on various screen sizes. - Service Status Monitoring: The command used to check service status was updated from port 15096 to port 17096, facilitating monitoring in different environments.
- OpenTelemetry Enhancements: A new
SmartSpanstruct andStartSmartSpanfunction were introduced, enabling conditional tracing based on a configuration setting (remotedaemon.trace.enabled). This avoids unnecessary overhead when tracing isn’t required, improving performance. The implementation includes baggage handling for managing trace state and improved error management during baggage parsing. Debugging context information is now more detailed, including Trace ID, Span ID, and relevant baggage data. - Docker Image Updates: Two new Docker images (
remotedaemon-lighthouse.tarandremotedaemon-jaeger.tar) were added to facilitate Jaeger tracing integration. - Template Rendering Improvements: The
TemplateFunctionspackage was updated to allow passing configuration data to components rendered using templates, improving modularity and flexibility. TheRenderPaginationfunction now utilizes the configuration directory. - Website Metrics Table: A new table rendering function,
renderMetricData, was introduced to display website URL metrics, simplifying the process of presenting this information. - Styling Adjustments: The header section’s background color was set to white with a subtle box shadow, and links received darker colors, hover effects, and underline for visual clarity. Media queries were implemented to adapt the layout for smaller screens, ensuring responsiveness on mobile devices.
These changes collectively address usability concerns, optimize tracing behavior, streamline deployment processes, and enhance the overall user experience of the admin dashboard. By centralizing tracing control and providing more granular styling options, these improvements contribute significantly to a cleaner, more performant, and adaptable application architecture.