Possible improvements to admin interface

[mre]

Here are some suggestions on how to improve the admin interface.
In my opinion this would really help in the day-to-day work.
I know that you are probably working on it, but maybe it helps to have a little wishlist here. 😄
The list is roughly ordered by importance.

• Increase the text field height for the query input in the data interface. Currently everything is in one line. This gets a bit confusing with longer queries.
• Show last executed queries (e.g. when clicking on the text field)
• Leave error messages open after a failed query. Currently they disappear after a couple of seconds.
• Show success message after drop series command
• Show current database in data interface
• Show current leader in cluser dashboard
• Back button not working (e.g. inside "database" view)
• Add line break to long series names
• Auto-Completion of query commands
• Human readable timestamps in select queries (tables)
• Show timestamp in shards

[bmatsuo]

+1 for a saner back button. Aside from not taking you where you'd expect, it has the side effect of logging you out.

It is frustrating. Being a fairly new user I hit "back" often 😦

[toddboom]

Agreed on all of the above.

@bmatsuo Sorry for the frustration. I'll get that knocked out in the next week or so. I promise!

[bmatsuo]

@toddboom good to hear 😄 But don't fret on my account. The more I personally am using the web interface the less I am doing it.

I only really bring it up for the sake tomorrow's new users. I imagine it's probably part of every user's first impressions of influxdb, "oh, the back button doesn't work..."

Please keep up the good work.

[pspeybro]

I've also noticed a few weird things in the formatting of the html (only tested in Firefox)
In this screenshot:

1. Y-axis is not correctly autosized when values are missing causing the trend to go below the X-axis and through the labels. Seems like the missing values are shown as zero but the axis is not adjusted accordingly. (whether displaying them as zero is correct is a different issue)
2. That little form next to the data table to write a value should be on the bottom, not sqeezed on the side. (incorrectly closed div or something like that?)

(influxDB 0.8.3, didn't check if new versions still have this)

[toddboom]

The admin interface will get an overhaul for v0.9.0. Stay tuned!

[toddboom]

The admin updates in #2746 should be released with v0.9.1 and will resolve most of the requests stated above. Thanks!