Managing Mods

Your workspace includes a hosted Powerpipe dashboard server, allowing you to view interactive dashboards and benchmarks, save and share snapshots and even schedule them to run and deliver via Slack or Teams. You can add and remove dashboards and benchmarks from your workspace by installing and removing mods.

You can manage mods from the Mods tab for the Powerpipe service in your workspace.

Navigate to your workspace, then to the Pipes tab, and choose Powerpipe. The Mods tab will list the mods that you have installed, as well as information about the version or branch that is installed. You can type a search string or filter in the search box to filter the list.

Installing Recommended Mods

You can install mods from the Settings tab of your workspace. On the settings page, click Mods, then click the Install Mods button.

Within the install mods screen, you will be presented with a list of the recommended mods that are compatible with the connections that are currently present in your workspace.

To install them, choose one or more mods, then click the Install Mods button.

Installation should typically only take a few seconds. You can then head over to the Dashboards tab, where you'll see a list of the available dashboards for the mod(s) you installed.

Installing a Custom Mod from an Integration

Rather than selecting an official mod within the install mods screen, you can choose to install a custom mod. If you have set up a GitHub Integration, this can be any mod that the Integration can access (including mods in private repos).

You can install custom mods from the Settings tab of your workspace. On the settings page, click Mods, then click the Install Mods button. From the mod installation page, click the Custom tab.

Choose the Integration that hosts the repo for the mod you wish to install, then select the Mod Repo from the dropdown list.

Choose the Branch or Version Constraint for the mod. Unlike recommended mods, which are only updated once a day, custom mods from integrations are updated in Pipes whenever the source repository is modified.

When finished, click Install Mods.

Installing a Mod from a GitHub Link

You can install a mod from any public GitHub repo by clicking on Install from a GitHub Link from the mod installation page. Turbot Pipes supports the installation of custom mods subject to the following rules:

• The repo must be publicly hosted on GitHub.
• There must be at least one semver tag (not a pre-release) satisfying the provided semver constraint.
• The tagged version must contain a mod.pp or mod.sp file at the root of the repo.

Installed mods are updated every day to the latest version that is satisfied by the semver constraint. The default of * means that the latest tagged version will be installed daily.

Enter your custom mod publicly hosted GitHub URL and a version constraint if applicable (if left empty, will default to *). When finished, click Install Mods.

Installation should typically only take a few seconds. You can then head over to the Dashboards tab, where you'll see a list of the available dashboards for the custom mod you installed.

Managing Mod Variables

When you install a mod in a workspace, any variables that the mod uses will be visible in Turbot Pipes.

From the Powerpipe Mods tab, you can click the mod you wish to view/manage the variables for.

Within the mod detail screen, you will see a list of the available variables, with a section per variable. You'll see the current value and can edit this and Save if you are an owner of the workspace.

Depending on the type of the variable, the editor will change, but you'll typically see either a text, a number, or a text/number list editor that will allow you to easily manage the value.

Once you've saved a mod variable, this should take effect in your workspace within a matter of seconds. If you head back to the workspace Dashboards tab, you will see the impact of that change in any dashboards that depend on it.

Uninstalling Mods

You can delete a mod from its detail view. From the list of installed mods in the Powerpipe Mods tab, click on the mod you wish to delete to go to the mod detail page.

On the detail screen, scroll to the bottom and click Uninstall Mod. Follow the confirmation instructions in the modal, and the mod will be uninstalled from your workspace.

After this has been completed, you'll no longer see any dashboards for this mod in the Dashboards tab.