bull-arena

Arena

An intuitive Web GUI for Bee Queue and Bull. Built on Express so you can run Arena standalone, or mounted in another app as middleware.

For a quick introduction to the motivations for creating Arena, read Interactively monitoring Bull, a Redis-backed job queue for Node.

Screenshots

Features

• Check the health of a queue and its jobs at a glance
• Paginate and filter jobs by their state
• View details and stacktraces of jobs with permalinks
• Restart and retry jobs with one click

Usage

Prerequisites

Configure your queues in the "queues" key of index.json. Queues take the following format:

{
  "name": "my_queue",
  "port": 6381,
  "host": "127.0.0.1",
  "hostId": "AWS Server 2"
}

The name, port, host, and hostId fields are required. hostId can be given any name, so it is recommended to give it a helpful name for reference. Optionally, you can also pass in db and password to configure redis credentials, or prefix to specify the customized prefix of the queue.

To specify a custom file location, see "Running Arena as a node module".

Note that if you happen to use Amazon Web Services' Elasticache as your Redis host, check out http://mixmax.com/blog/bull-queue-aws-autodiscovery

Running the server

Run npm install to fetch Arena's dependencies. Then run npm start to start the server.

Note that because Arena is dependent on async/await, Arena only currently supports Node >7.

Running Arena as a node module

Alternatively, you can use Arena as a node module. This has potential benefits:

• Arena can be configured to use any method of server/queue configuration desired
  • for example, fetching available redis queues from an AWS instance on server start
  • or even just plain old reading from environment variables
• Arena can be mounted in other express apps as middleware

Usage:

In project folder:

yarn add bull-arena

In router.js:

const Arena = require('bull-arena');

const express = require('express');
const router = express.Router();

const arena = Arena({queues});
router.use('/', arena);

Arena takes two arguments. The first, config, is a plain object containing the queue configuration. The second, listenOpts, is an object that can contain the following optional parameters:

• port - specify custom port to listen on (default: 4567)
• basePath - specify custom path to mount server on (default: '/')
• disableListen - don't let the server listen (useful when mounting Arena as a sub-app of another Express app) (default: false)

Bee Queue support

Arena is dual-compatible with Bull 3.x and the 1.0.0 pre-release of bee-queue. To add a Bee queue to the Arena dashboard, include the type: bee attribute with an individual queue's configation object.

Docker image

You can now docker pull Arena from Docker Hub.

To build the image simply run:

docker build -t <name-image> .

To run a container, execute the following command. Note that we need to settle the location of index.json in this container via volume mounting:

docker run -p 4567:4567 -v /opt/arena/src/server/config/index.json:</local/route/to/index.json> <name-image>

Development

Arena is written using Express, with simple jQuery and Handlebars on the front end.

If updating dependencies, please use Yarn and update the yarn.lock file before submitting a pull request.

License

The MIT License.