Tracking: Alloy X-ray to improve debugging capabilities

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Goals

• Provide better feedback to users creating and debugging pipelines
• Enable users to reap the benefits of Alloy’s flexible component system fully
• Build a foundation for richer UI experiences in the future

Description

The X-ray functionality allows users to see live data exposed by the components in their pipelines via Alloy's UI.

Non-functional requirements

• Very low overhead when inactive
• Low overhead when active
• Low impact on code complexity
• Capable of handling large volumes of data (UI not crashing the browser, not using too much memory, etc.)
• High extensibility (should be easy to hook a new component to it)

Tracking list

Tasks

Beta Give feedback

1. Create the x-ray service and connect the prometheus.relabel component to it
2. Implement the x-ray front-end in the UI #831
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3. Run benchmark and optimise if necessary #832
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4. Write doc / changelog and get it merged on main #833
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