KontikiTUI

Part of the Kontiki suite — Python runtime, registry, terminal UI, and fleet monitoring for distributed services.

Full suite overview → https://kontiki-org.github.io/

Ops demo → kontiki-monitor Quickstart.

Overview

KontikiTUI is a terminal UI for a Kontiki fleet: one SSH entry point for registry census, open ops alerts, flow trees, events, exceptions, logs, and silences.

It is built with Textual. A session Group Select slices every monitoring tab the same way (all plus groups discovered in the registry).

Tabs

Every monitoring tab uses the same session Group Select (all plus groups from the live registry). Changing it in one tab updates all tabs. Instance ids are the Kontiki 12-hex short id. r refreshes the active tab.

• Services: live instances (status, heartbeat, host/pid, versions). Row → public config JSON. m / M mute via kontiki-monitor (confirmed).

  

• Entrypoints: catalogue a service exposes (events, RPC, HTTP, tasks) and retained competing messages. p replays the oldest one, d drops it (both confirmed). Requires Kontiki ≥2.2.0.

• Incidents: open alerts from kontiki-monitor and host-check-service. Row → alert JSON. e exports Markdown.

  

• Flows: AMQP chains by flow_id (list + message tree). Exceptions nest under the hop that failed. Context records (Kontiki 2.0) are annotations on the tree, not hops. e exports the tree and matching log lines ([flow=…], including traceback). Requires Kontiki ≥2.0.0.

  

• Events: publishes and RPC calls in time order. Hides registry.context.recorded (Flow annotations, Kontiki 2.0).

  

• Exceptions: registry exception index. Tracebacks stay in Logs. e exports Markdown.

  

• Logs: current instance log files under logs.directory (lnav if installed). Group Select applies.

  

• Silences: monitor mutes, including names no longer registered. s clears the selected row. Mute is set from Services.

  

• Settings: ~/.config/kontiki_tui.yaml (reload on save). Markdown exports go to export.directory (e then y).

  

Requirements

• Kontiki 2.2.0
• RabbitMQ ≥ 4.3
• Optional: lnav for richer log filtering; without it, a built-in Python reader is used

Quickstart

Install from PyPI

pip install kontiki-tui
kontiki-tui

(package on PyPI)

Install from source (Poetry)

make install
make run

Test stack (RabbitMQ + registry + example services + kontiki-monitor)

In one terminal:

make stack-up

In another terminal:

make run

Launch examples to view events and exceptions

make run-rpc-example
make run-simple-event-example

To stop:

make stack-down

Contributing

See CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See LICENSE and NOTICE.