Before we actually remove the admin interface, we'll have a modern version of it in the now OSS Chronograf. Basically moving that functionality to there so we can iterate on the UI separately from the DB.

Cool. However, we're pretty settled on Grafana+InfluxDB and I'm not sure I have any real reason to deploy Chronograf. We'll see though.

You can use the cli client that comes with InfluxDB. It is both faster and (for me) less painless to use. The Admin Interface always felt like an afterthought to me that was not well supported.

The admin UI was really good and they started to strip features away from it one by one and now it is disabled. It even could do simple graphs and was very useful for debugging.

That seems to be their uncommunicated plan - to attract users to open source version and then remove features to offer just with enterprise product. They have done it with clustering support where after attracting people with promises they then removed it from open source version. Grafana as a replacement? It really does different things.

The admin UI functionality is getting moved over to Chronograf, which is now open source. We do have commercial stuff, but trying to make money off our UI was never a strategy.

That sounds a bit unfair to me. In the end it's a company and they need to earn money somehow. Clustering is a very hard problem that takes a lot of manpower to get right.

They do deserve to be paid for their product, yes. And it's worth paying for.

They ill will was also deserved though, because when they changed business plans to exclude more features from the community version, they surprised and angered many users. Bait and switch is what got communicated, and trust violated, forcing projects to seek alternatives or modify their budgets.

This can be avoided by clearly communicating the roadmap of community vs enterprise features and sticking to it. But don't keep danging new features in free and then remove them unexpectedly.

I'm using it too! I find it really useful for experimenting with queries before I set them up in grafana.