Board Cloud Logs: Service Status / Shared Storage Capacity

Fethi ZERARA · January 2

Dear Community,

Wishing you a New Year filled with joy and fun!

I would like to know the location of the SharedStorageZ file in order to retrieve the current capacity of the Shared Storage ( Possible to get this info using an API call ?). Is there any possibility to check via an API whether the Board Service is on or off?

Our goal is to gather all this information and send it to the exploitation team through APIs.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards,

Filip Rankovic · January 2

Hello Fethi

Happy New Year to you, as well.

Regarding your first question:
While it is not possible to access the SharedStorageZ log via API directly, you can load the data into a suitable Cube via DataReader.
The path of the log on each machine is: "C:\Board\Dataset\Log\SharedStorageZ.log"
After loading the properties of the drive (with appropriate ETL), you can configure an "API query" endpoint in the data model as usual to access that Cube's data.

Regarding your second question:
I am not aware of a dedicated endpoint for the Service availability, but I can suggest creating a dummy "API query" endpoint that can be used for checking if the Service is running or not.
When it is off, the endpoint will not be addressable and you will receive a "500 - Internal Server Error" message instead of the dummy value.

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Filip

Helmut Heimann · January 6

https://community.board.com/discussion/comment/19353#Comment_19353

Hi @Fethi ZERARA ,

those aspects need Board's Metadata, which unfortunately is not available anymore. If you look into our ideas section and search for "metadata" you'll get loads of ideas regarding this topic, some of them significantly older than a year.

There currently is no publicly available way of extracting the data to answer your question from a Board data model. For the time being you'll need to track all that information (manually) in a separate application.
You can—of course—open a new idea …

Best,
Helmut

Helmut Heimann · January 7

@Fethi ZERARA : I'm looking forward to new features being implemented too—always ;-)
So let's keep our eyes peeled.

Best,
Helmut

Andrea Duò · January 8

Hello @Fethi ZERARA,

to add on Helmut's comment, this is just an example of one idea in this area that we received

https://community.board.com/discussion/14199/api-entities-max-item-number

Feel free to search for similar open ideas, vote and comment them to raise this topic to the attention of our Product Mgmt team.

Andrea

Fethi ZERARA · January 6

Filip Rankovic

Fantastic, that was helpful! :)

Do you have any insights on the following monitoring aspects?

Entity Saturation
Cube Size
64 / 128-bit cubes
Data Model Size

Thanks in advance!

Fethi ZERARA · January 7

Helmut Heimann,Thank you very much for your reply.
I’ve heard that the Board is introducing new API features in Q1 that will enhance this area, and we hope that will provide more flexibility in the future!