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+# Hydra status timeboard
+
+In order to deploy hydra status dashboard you can:
+
+* create a deployment
+
+```
+nixops create -d hydra-status /path/to/hydra/datadog/dd-dashboard.nix
+```
+
+* setup the default hostname and api/app keys
+
+```
+nixops set-args -d hydra-status --argst appKey <app_key> --argstr apiKey <api_key> --argstr host chef
+```
+
+* deploy
+
+```
+nixops deploy -d hydra-status
+```
diff --git a/datadog/dd-dashboard.nix b/datadog/dd-dashboard.nix
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+{
+  host
+, appKey
+, apiKey
+, ...
+}:
+{
+  resources.datadogTimeboards.hydra-status = {
+    inherit appKey apiKey;
+    description = "Hydra build farm status";
+    graphs = [
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.active{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.building{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.copying_to{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.copying_from{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.waiting{$host}"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Active/building steps";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.avg_build_time{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.avg_total_time{$host}"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Build/total time per step";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.finished{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.builds.finished{$host}"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Finished builds/steps";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "max:system.io.await{$host} by {device}"; type = "area"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Disk latency (ms, by device)";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.unfinished{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.builds.unfinished{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.steps.runnable{$host}"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Unfinished builds/steps";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:system.load.1{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:system.load.5{$host}"; }
+            { q = "avg:system.load.15{$host}"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Load Averages 1-5-15";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "per_hour(ewma_20(avg:hydra.queue.steps.finished{$host}))"; }
+            {
+              q = "per_hour(ewma_20(avg:hydra.queue.builds.finished{$host}))";
+            }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Finished builds/steps / hour";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [ { q = "avg:hydra.mem.dirty{$host}"; } ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Dirty memory";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            {
+              aggregator = "avg";
+              conditional_formats = [];
+              q = "avg:system.mem.used{$host}";
+              type = "line";
+            }
+            {
+              conditional_formats = [];
+              q = "avg:system.mem.free{$host}";
+              type = "line";
+            }
+            {
+              conditional_formats = [];
+              q = "avg:system.mem.usable{$host}";
+              type = "line";
+            }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Memory usage";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.bytes_sent{$host}"; type = "line"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.bytes_received{$host}"; type = "line"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Stores paths sent/received";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "per_minute(ewma_20(avg:hydra.queue.bytes_sent{$host}))"; }
+            {
+              q = "per_minute(ewma_20(avg:hydra.queue.bytes_received{$host}))";
+            }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Store paths sent/received (GiB / minute)";
+      }
+      {
+        definition = builtins.toJSON {
+          requests = [
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.machines.total{$host}"; type = "line"; }
+            { q = "avg:hydra.queue.machines.in_use{$host}"; type = "line"; }
+          ];
+          viz = "timeseries";
+        };
+        title = "Total and active machines";
+      }
+    ];
+    templateVariables = [
+      {
+        default = "host:${host}";
+        name = "host";
+        prefix = "host";
+      }
+    ];
+    title = "Hydra Status (deployed from nixops)";
+  };
+}