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This is great, can't wait to try it. One of the only things that bugged me about riak was the need to look up and run shell commands just to see if my cluster was okay.

This looks bizarrely similar to DataStax's "OpsCenter" app for monitoring/controlling Cassandra: http://www.datastax.com/products/opscenter . I wonder if they care?

Apart from having a black background, they look nothing alike.

Really? Looks very similar to me. In particular, the layout, with the navigation stuff (same size, spacing, similar organization).

Maybe there's only really one way to make an app like this. I don't think so, though. Compared to zenoss, nagios, etc, and other more product-specific monitoring apps out in the world, the similarity seems strong to me. Granted, Riak Control doesn't have as many pretty/flashy features, but those will probably come.

There's a good video overview of it at a Posterous talk:

http://vimeo.com/35907658

When I look at it and see that five out of the eight tabs are disabled, I begin to wonder what I did wrong.