Netdata node URL with chartname parameter

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I’m trying to generate link like this with custom chartName

however this parameter name is rather strange.

5a864ed6-1be7-4455-aeb8-36cf93a0abad-12f663e4-3ed6-4cc0-a5f7-be50aac6cb5e-chartName=menu_system_submenu_network

Could you help me to understand what is this uuid? Is it possible to specify chartName in URL without this long uuid?

https://app.netdata.cloud/spaces/******-space/rooms/all-nodes/nodes/12f663e4-3ed6-4cc0-a5f7-be50aac6cb5e#appliedFilteredIds=&liveNodeIds=&staleNodeIds=&offlineNodeIds=&filteredNodesSearchParams=&metrics_correlation=false&after=-300&before=0&utc=Europe/Vilnius&offset=+2&timezoneName=Helsinki, Kyiv, Riga, Sofia, Tallinn, Vilnius&modal=&modalTab=&5a864ed6-1be7-4455-aeb8-36cf93a0abad-12f663e4-3ed6-4cc0-a5f7-be50aac6cb5e-chartName=menu_system_submenu_network&modalParams=
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hmm - not sure what that is - i’ll ask one of the FE team

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i see what you mean - i can see it on my prom charts like below:

link netdata.cloud/spaces/ml-demo-space/rooms/all-nodes/nodes/df9fbcba-2d32-4170-92ae-3dead1752313#6045dc92-0a0c-48d8-960c-d2e0f31aa95d-df9fbcba-2d32-4170-92ae-3dead1752313-chartName=menu_prometheus_node_exporter_demo_cpu_1s

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i tried striping off the uid part and see that the link does not work - agree would be nice if something like

app.netdata.cloud/spaces/ml-demo-space/rooms/all-nodes/nodes/df9fbcba-2d32-4170-92ae-3dead1752313#chartName=menu_prometheus_node_exporter_demo_cpu_1s

would just work and if there happens to be 2 charts with same name that it would just pick first one or something sensible

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@ben its the uuid for the room - so its sort of a constant that’s going to be the same for all charts in a room.

can i ask what the use case here is - so i can understand if is a feature request we should make here if this uuid part if a blocker of some functionality of more of an annoyance in terms of making the urls a bit harder to reason and work with.

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Aha! Sorry for disturbing then. I could have checked msyelf that’s its same across nodes.

I have implementing “hacky” solution to send slack messages about each node. And In them I want link directly to the graph that raised “alarm”. Now it’s good. Let’s mark this as solved. Thank you for explaining.

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cool, makes sense, i might make a feature request to clean up the urls like this on FE so its more intuitive for users wanting to use them for whatever reason as it is a little confusing with that room_id prefix and dont think it should be needed.

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Well it’s not broken :smiley: not sure if it needs changing. Works good for me atm :smiley: