Custom links should be rendered irrespective of OAuth2 settings in Chronograf

[Puneeth-n]

I think, the linked custom links in Chronograf should work irrespective of OAuth2 being enabled especially since Chronograf doesn't behave like a OAuth2 proxy.

Let me describe my use case. I have ELK, Jaeger-ui and Chronograf under different base paths. I would like to have all there services running under the same hostname but different paths.

foo.bar.com/monitoring => chronograf
foo.bar.com/tracing => Jaeger
foo.bar.com/logging => elk

Therefore, I have a central oauth2 proxy in my case https://github.com/bitly/oauth2_proxy that does authentication. Therefore, I don't necessarily need the OAuth2 authentication from Chronograf.

I would like to provide custom links in chronograf to kibana and jaeger. However, with the current implementation, it isn't possible.

I think, custom links should be modeled in similar lines to what Jaeger does. https://www.jaegertracing.io/docs/1.6/deployment/#ui-configuration

Ideally, It would be nice to have Chronograf as a central place for viewing metrics, traces and logs. However, There seems to be

• No progress W.R.T integrating Jaeger with TICK stack https://github.com/influxdata/jaeger InfluxDB as trace storage backend jaegertracing/jaeger#272
• PR on pushing docker logs to TICK is pending merge Docker Log Plugin telegraf#4360

Irrespective of when these above features are implemented, I strongly believe that custom links should not depend on whether OAuth2 in Chronograf is used or not because these custom links need to be secured, they will be secured.

[russorat]

@Puneeth-n thanks for reporting. this feature was specifically focused around our cloud offering which always has auth enabled. We will look to update where the links are stored in a future ui redesign.

Another option that will be released in 1.7 chronograf will be a "Notes" cell type that allows markdown. You could possibly add a note cell to your dashboards with links to the other tools. It's not ideal, but might be better than nothing.

[Puneeth-n]

@russorat Thanks

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