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Make users aware there's additional data soon after it arrives

Open philrz opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

Once we have some kind of agent-style approach that ships recent log data into a lake, users of the Brim app will surely want an option to see it in a "live" way. Other tools often provide for this via an option adjacent to their time picker, e.g. after selecting a time range like "Last 30 seconds" or "Last 5 minutes", have some kind of "auto-refresh" toggle/interval such that the currently active query (or queries, if/when we offer some dashboard-like view) is automatically re-executed on a regular interval to ensure the most recent data is included.

philrz avatar Dec 23 '20 20:12 philrz

I ran into this playing with live updates of BPF data. The app. continuously pops up the "More data is now available" modal, which worked fine for the drag-pcap use case, doesn't work well at all in general. I think we should have a reload button like on a browser that is disabled when there is no new data. We can figure out how to do smooth, live updates later...

mccanne avatar Nov 21 '21 13:11 mccanne

Agreed.

jameskerr avatar Nov 22 '21 17:11 jameskerr

Update on this. The popup "more data is available" is now gone. So now the app won't be annoying. We still need to add a subtle indicator that more data is available.

jameskerr avatar Feb 16 '22 22:02 jameskerr