Wavefront has an amazing GUI that we all love and use regularly. With its great performance and design, it significantly enables us to analyze our metrics. As a command line client to Wavefront, wavectl cannot replace the powerful GUI and all the crucial use cases addressed by the GUI. It was imperative for wavectl users to be able to switch to Wavefront GUI effortlessly. Because of that, we have build an --in-browser option into the show command. With --in-browser, the show command launches new browser tabs and loads your selected alerts and dashboards.
For example say you want to investigate your alerts that have the name "Kubernetes" in them. You could narrow down your shown alerts with the --name REGEX command line option. After you list them in the terminal and are convinved of the selected alerts, you would probably interact with them via the Wavefront GUI. wavectl show can load all selected alerts in a browser tab with the --in-browser option. This saves a lot of clicking in the browser and unncessary copy paste from the command line to the browser.
For example, the following command list all alerts with "Kubernetes" in their name and will create new browser tabs for each selected one and load the Wavefront page to that alert.
$ wavectl show --in-browser alert --name Kubernetes
ID NAME STATUS SEVERITY
1523082347619 Kubernetes - Node Network Utilization - HIGH (Prod) CHECKING WARN
1523082347824 Kubernetes - Node Cpu Utilization - HIGH (Prod) CHECKING WARN
1523082348005 Kubernetes - Node Memory Swap Utilization - HIGH (Prod) SNOOZED WARN
Similarly, the following views all Metadata dashboards in Wavefront GUI.
$ wavectl show --in-browser dashboard --name Metadata
ID NAME DESCRIPTION
metadata-operations Metadata Operations Metrics about each operation that can be performed against the data store
metadata-perfpod Metadata PerfPod Monitors for testing Metadata in the PerfPods
metadata-php Metadata PHP Monitors for Metadata in the PHP webapp