It looks cool but it's not actually any more usable than just a table / gridview list...<p>Consider :-<p>1. A list can quickly be filtered to show only critical state servers - I probably don't care about servers which aren't doing anything<p>2. If I want to look for a specific server - I have <i>no</i> idea which one it is - I have to click to find it. A grid means I can look for it instantly<p>3. The info being displayed takes a while to digest as to what I'm seeing on the 3d axes with regards to ping etc... A grid just gives me the numbers and I can read them quickly.<p>Yet again a use of pretty graphics where it really isn't needed
I'm looking at the Mozilla example on my laptop without a mouse, and I get a little bit annoyed when I'm hovering a certain node trying to click on it and the visualization keeps on moving and makes it hard to click on it. So maybe it could be possible to have a simple option to freeze the view?<p>And maybe an easy way of instantly changing to some near optimal viewpoint for viewing the data in terms of a given axis? (Ie. CPU or memory usage).<p>But this, combined with normal alerts would be cool. Oh, and what about showing trace lines once I've selected a given node? :)
Neat tech, terrible interface - utterly pointless. Flat graphs, which are configured to show outliers/only problematic nodes would provide a far more efficient interface to someone trying to work out where the bottlenecks and issues are. Showing lots of data for the sake of it might be pretty but it's not helpful, choosing what to present is an important part of the visualisation development process as how it is presented.
It looks like it was fun to make, but I can't see how it's particularly useful. I can't see anything useful in a 3D visualization like that.<p>> "and it's the first cloud monitoring system in the world that you can watch in real-time as it checks your servers."<p>Yeah Cacti does that with an HTTP refresh every few seconds. 'realtime' enough for most instances.