Cloud Analytics: first video
The video for the Cloud Analytics talk that Bryan Cantrill and I recently gave was streamed live on ustream and available online immediately after. It’s now available edited and in hires.
Just before the talk, I took screenshots of each of the demos I wanted to give, to refer to if needed. I didn’t end up using them in the talk as we were able to demo everything live. I’ve included them here to supplement the video. They show the same heatmaps we demoed, but at a different time of day with some different features visible. Watch the video for the descriptions of these heatmaps, what they are showing, and why they are useful.
These screenshots show our prototype Joyent Cloud Analytics visualizing performance on production systems. The interface (buttons and controls) that surround these heatmaps will be much improved over time. Right now, we experimenting with data collection (thanks mainly to DTrace) and how that data can be visualized (mostly heatmaps, but we are doing other graph types too).
The axes for these heat maps are:
- x-axis: time
- y-axis: latency (usually; some heatmaps use sub-second offset, file descriptor offset, etc).
- z-axis (color saturation): number of events at that time/latency range
- 4-axis (color hue): breakdown of another axis; eg: application, event type, smartmachine, etc.
In: Joyent · Tagged with: cloud analytics, joyent, performance, video, visualizations
on January 25, 2011 at 12:20 am
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on June 16, 2011 at 4:38 pm
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[...] command line. This is something that we are addressing with Cloud Analytics (videos), using heat maps to display file system latency. This is done for all applications and file sytems, by tracing in [...]
on September 26, 2011 at 10:56 pm
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[...] in production to solve real issues; it wasn’t that long ago that Bryan and I were demoing the prototype. Posted on September 26, 2011 at 9:12 am by Brendan Gregg · Permalink [...]