[Feat]: Allow creation of dynamic automated rooms based on use-case

[shyamvalsan]

Problem

Currently every new node connected to Netdata cloud is added to the all nodes room and then its up to the user to create custom rooms and organize the infrastructure how they see fit.

It would be useful if certain kinds of nodes can be auto-grouped together into a pre-built auto-room within Netdata (special kind of rooms that are different from user created rooms)

Description

It would be useful if certain kinds of nodes can be auto-grouped together into a pre-built room within Netdata (special kind of rooms that are different from user created rooms) - this would be especially beneficial for users with large spaces (with many thousands of nodes).

For example:

• Network devices room: All SNMP vnodes should be automatically added to a Network Devices or SNMP room
• Kubernetes room(s): There should be a Kubernetes room, or a room per Kubernetes cluster auto-created. This is a better way of handling Kubernetes than a dedicated tab inside each room.

These 2 are the obvious ones to start with but there could be other kinds of auto-rooms as well:

• Windows devices
• Database nodes

This feature will reduce the dependency on creating custom tabs for everything (which is heading towards eventual no-space-for-new-tabs)

Also there should be the option to decide what tabs are visible in these auto-rooms, for example in Network devices (SNMP) room we might have (in the future) a dedicated tab for Network Topology viewer, SNMP traps, Flow monitoring etc.

Importance

must have

Value proposition

1. Better usability
2. Necessary for clear visualization of SNMP Network devices

Proposed implementation

No response

[shyamvalsan]

@novykh @ktsaou @ralphm Creating this issue based on the discussion we had last week

cc: @Ancairon @christophidesp @sashwathn @netdata/cloud-fe

[shyamvalsan]

Visually the auto-rooms and user-rooms must be distinguishable, separately we also discussed removing the "visited nodes" section - this isn't very useful and removing it gives us the space we need here.

[novykh]

Not trying to avoid anything here, but how is this a frontend issue? From what I understand we want to create rooms based on node metadata, maybe this can happen at the minute a node gets claimed? In any case it should on the backend since its something that should happen automatically, right?

[shyamvalsan]

@novykh my understanding was that it was FE but I maybe wrong of course, @netdata/cloud-be @papazach please review and suggest the way forward.

I do think some work is needed to distinguish auto-rooms and user-rooms in the UI even if this is handled from BE.

[papazach]

Sounds like a joint initiative that would need both FE and BE work. Probably also design work / UX work from @christophidesp as well.

I think that we should spec this out and understand how this should work but also how it aligns with the existing Dynamic Rooms functionality