diff --git a/bare-metrics-gui/src/graph.rs b/bare-metrics-gui/src/graph.rs
index 8d54517..7ed8d15 100644
--- a/bare-metrics-gui/src/graph.rs
+++ b/bare-metrics-gui/src/graph.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 use crate::background_loader::MetricsLogReadingRequester;
 use crate::config::GraphRequest;
-use bare_metrics_core::structures::{UnixTimestampMilliseconds};
+use bare_metrics_core::structures::UnixTimestampMilliseconds;
 use eframe::egui::{
     Color32, Frame as EguiFrame, PointerButton, Pos2, Rect, Sense, Stroke, TextStyle, Ui, Vec2,
 };
diff --git a/bare-metrics-gui/src/main.rs b/bare-metrics-gui/src/main.rs
index 0c7644a..85aee8b 100644
--- a/bare-metrics-gui/src/main.rs
+++ b/bare-metrics-gui/src/main.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-use crate::background_loader::{MetricsLogReaderMessage, MetricsLogReadingRequester};
+use crate::background_loader::{
+    MetricsLogReaderMessage, MetricsLogReaderNotification, MetricsLogReadingRequester,
+};
 use crate::config::{DashboardConfig, GraphRequest};
 use crate::graph::Graph;
 
@@ -7,7 +9,8 @@ use eframe::egui::{CentralPanel, CtxRef};
 use eframe::epi::{App, Frame, Storage};
 use eframe::NativeOptions;
 use env_logger::Env;
-use log::info;
+use log::{debug, info, warn};
+use std::collections::{BTreeMap};
 use std::fs::File;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 use std::str::FromStr;
@@ -25,6 +28,8 @@ pub struct MetricsGui {
 
 impl App for MetricsGui {
     fn update(&mut self, ctx: &CtxRef, _frame: &mut Frame<'_>) {
+        self.handle_messages();
+
         let Self {
             requester,
             dashboard,
@@ -75,6 +80,42 @@ impl App for MetricsGui {
     }
 }
 
+impl MetricsGui {
+    fn handle_messages(&mut self) {
+        while let Ok(msg) = self.requester.rx.try_recv() {
+            match msg {
+                MetricsLogReaderNotification::MetricDescriptorsAvailable { .. } => {
+                    info!("Metric descriptors are available");
+                    self.on_metric_descriptors_available();
+                }
+                MetricsLogReaderNotification::WindowLoadStateChange { .. } => {
+                    debug!("State change");
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    fn on_metric_descriptors_available(&mut self) {
+        if !self.graph_requests.is_empty() {
+            warn!("TODO: don't know how to handle multiple appearances of descriptors");
+            return;
+        }
+        if let Some(dashboard) = self.dashboard.as_ref() {
+            for graph in dashboard.graphs.iter() {
+                // TODO frankly we should maybe be using metric IDs in the graph requests
+                self.graph_requests.push(GraphRequest {
+                    metric_name: graph.name.clone(),
+                    // TODO we need something better about the metric labels
+                    metric_labels: BTreeMap::new(),
+                    derivation: graph.transform.clone(),
+                });
+            }
+        } else {
+            // TODO Build some stuff automatically based on alphabetical ordering
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 fn main() -> anyhow::Result<()> {
     env_logger::Builder::from_env(Env::default().default_filter_or("info")).init();