I was thinking, it would be nice to have a built-in management template (and page).

In this page, we might include information and control over various settings and tasks.

First things that came to my mind :

• Data model/store
• dbmode (info)
• Database size (info)
• Number of entities (info)
• Slowest queries (info)
• Option to download a database dump (facility)
• Search:
• Index directory (info)
• Hibernate search statistics (existing template: showSearchStats) (info)
• Forced reindex of data (control, use with warning)
• Forced reindex of suggestions (info+control)
• Forced renewal of facet readers (info+control)
• Mail:
• SMTP host (info)
• Size of mail queue (info)
• Reset mail queue / remove queued mails (control)
• Recurring tasks
• Recurring task names and moment of last execution time (info)
• Disable/enable/force recurring tasks (control)
• Log:
• View the latest log entries (requires some changes to the log apenders currently used) (info)
• Other project settings:
• appname (info)
• query optimization mode in use (info)
• sessiontimeout (info)

There’s probably a lot more we can put in here, feel free to extend the list.

Not only will it be useful for debugging, it will also raise awareness of some features a WebDSL user may be unfamiliar with.

Submitted by Elmer van Chastelet on 1 December 2012 at 16:28

Having a default management page/template would be very nice. Other things we could show are database size, number of entities, slowest queries, option to download a database dump (useful for small apps at least). Taking application health monitoring a bit further, we could add information about more basic WebDSL elements, for example warn about slow pages/templates/actions/functions (such data is currently not collected).