The Chrome Performance Dashboard is an App Engine web application for displaying and monitoring performance test results.
Running a local instance (i.e., a dev server) of the Performance Dashboard is no longer supported due to a python2 dependency in the appengine toolchain.
To manually test your python server changes, deploy them to chromeperf-stage.
All dashboard code lives in the dashboard/ subdirectory, with the endpoints for individual HTTP API handlers in that directory. There are a number of subprojects which are also hosted in that directory:
api: Handlers for API endpoints.common: A module collecting various utilities and common types used across multiple subprojects in the performance dashboard.docs: A collection of documents for users of the dashboard, the API, and other subprojects.elements: User interface elements used in the performance dashboard web user interface. This is deprecated in favor of spa.models: A collection of types which represent entities in the data store, with associated business logic for operations. These models should be thought of as models in the Model-View-Controller conceptual framework.pinpoint: The performance regression bisection implementation. See more in the pinpoint documentation.services: A collection of wrappers which represent external services which the dashboard subprojects interact with.static: Directory containing all the static assets used in the user interface. This is deprecated in favor of spa.templates: HTML files representing the templates for views served through the App Engine user interface. This is deprecated in favor of spa.sheriff_config: A standalone service for managing sheriff configurations hosted in git repositories, accessed through luci-config.The dashboard has a few dependencies. Before running dashboard unit tests, be sure to following all instructions under this section.
The dashboard requires Python modules from Google Cloud SDK to run. An easy way to install it is through cipd, using the following command. You only need to do this once. (You can replace ~/google-cloud-sdk with another location if you prefer.)
echo infra/gae_sdk/python/all latest | cipd ensure -root ~/google-cloud-sdk -ensure-file -
Then run the following command to set PYTHONPATH. It is recommended to add this to your .bashrc or equivalent.
export PYTHONPATH=~/google-cloud-sdk
If you already have a non-empty PYTHONPATH, you can add the Cloud SDK location to it. However, dashboard does not require any additional Python libraries. It is recommended that your PYTHONPATH only contains the cloud SDK while testing the dashboard.
(Note: The official source for Google Cloud SDK is https://cloud.google.com/sdk, and you can install Python modules with gcloud components install app-engine-python. However, this method of installation has not been verified with the dashboard.)
The dashboard uses several protobuf (protocol buffer) definitions, which must be compiled into Python modules. First you need to install the protobuf compiler, and then use it to compile the protobuf definition files.
To install the protobuf compiler, use the following command. You only need to do this once. (You can replace ~/protoc with another location if you prefer.)
echo infra/tools/protoc/linux-amd64 protobuf_version:v3.6.1 | cipd ensure -root ~/protoc -ensure-file -
Afterwards, run the following commands to compile the protobuf definitions. You need to do this whenever any of the protobuf definition files have changed. Modify the first line below if your catapult directory is at a different location.
catapult=~/chromium/src/third_party/catapult ~/protoc/protoc --proto_path $catapult/dashboard --python_out $catapult/dashboard $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/protobuf/sheriff.proto $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/protobuf/sheriff_config.proto cp $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/protobuf/sheriff_pb2.py $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/sheriff_config/ cp $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/protobuf/sheriff_config_pb2.py $catapult/dashboard/dashboard/sheriff_config/ ~/protoc/protoc --proto_path $catapult/tracing/tracing/proto --python_out $catapult/tracing/tracing/proto $catapult/tracing/tracing/proto/histogram.proto
First following the steps given in Dependencies section above. Then, run dashboard unit tests with:
dashboard/bin/run_py_tests
Bugs can be reported on the Chromium issue tracker using the Speed>Dashboard component:
Note that some existing issues can be found in the Github issue tracker, but this is no longer the preferred location for filing new issues.
For questions and feedback, send an email to chrome-perf-dashboard-team@google.com.