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 </local/route/to/index.json>:/opt/arena/src/server/config/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.