Feedback from user UI review
I spent about 2 hours going through the Stork UI with Cathy, prompting her to look for things and asking where she expected to find them. I will open separate issues for the things I think should be changed. I do have a (local) recording of the whole session.
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Move machines to the configuration menu. Cathy expected to configure machines to monitor under configuration. The initial dialog in the unconfigured system is good, but for later use, it is more natural to update the Stork configuration under the Configuration menu. #279 (closed) -
Cannot find the dashboard, which should be the main screen, the home screen. Add the first item under the Kea DHCP menu item = "Dashboard", or "DHCP Dashboard" #280 (closed) -
While it is fine to have the dashboard linked to the Stork logo, but why doesn’t it say that in the mouseover on the logo? Edit the mouseover which now has some other stuff. #281 (closed) -
While we get that Stork is looking at app IDs, admins are looking for host names or IP addresses. Add a machines list with host IP at the bottom of the dashboard and you don't need the current machines page, except to configure new machines. #288 (closed) -
The RED ! for services that the CA is looking for that it doesn’t find has got to go. It is very alarming. Please replace with blue or yellow color, and a ? or - or (i) or some other icon? (I don't know what icons are available to us, but I would be a happy to pick a better one if you would share the options.) #282 (closed) -
Tables with lines are easier to read than the unlined tables on the dashboard page. If it doesn’t take up too much real estate, could we have line separators in the tables on the dashboard? #293 (closed) -
Cathy tried the button to rename a host on the machines page. This is there presumably in case of a typo in the host name. The problem is, changing the host name doesn’t clear out previously fetched info in buffer. This seems like a bug. #283 (closed) -
On the machines details page, on the right there is a button for details on the apps. Why not put more of the details right on there? At least, please put the status. There is plenty of unused screen real estate. The red ! is alarming, but Cathy couldn't tell what the problem was it was alerting her to. #284 (closed), #285 (closed) -
On the dashboard page, we need either better titles or mouseover that says it is showing you the top 5 ordered by utilization, something like that. Cathy couldn't tell why it was displaying those subnets and it was frustrating. #289 (closed) -
Feature request for a button to save everything in stork to a file to send to ISC support. #290 (closed)
observations without issues (yet)
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Cathy eventually figured out that hitting return would refresh the screen, but it took a while to figure that out. Can we add a REFRESH button on that screen? (machines?) - need screen shot for this don't see it. - Cathy asked how can she configure the thresholds for alerts on pool utilization - this feature request already exists.
- Cathy couldn't find the link to the graphs, and didn't know she had't configured the address for Grafana.
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When you ask for a table to be displayed as say 30 rows, can it remember that info and display it that way every time? Cathy had to keep resetting the table length. #506. - It could be an artifact of the demo set up- but there are some panels where you expect to see machine IP address and instead you get either appid (which is not that obvious or useful to the user as hostname) or hostname and no IP
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Feature request - Cathy immediately started looking for the application logs.