Real-time server visualization with canvas and processing.js

There is also the /monitoring/ page (which i don't have a screenshot of handy), which is a grid view similar to what you are talking about.

This is a very different take on visualizing your infrastructure. I encourage you to setup your servers and post on the big screen at your office. After watching it for awhile, you will start to be able to see when something is an anomaly just with a glance.

Imagine looking at a list of 500 servers and trying to determine how their aggregate memory usage was trending in real-time.

To quickly address your concerns:

1. Servers that are critical turn red and blink - there's no need to filter anything since your eyes have already done it.

2. This tool isn't really designed to be a gateway to arbitrary servers; it's showing you anomalies, problems, and aggregate trending.

3. I think this could be a fair point, but with only 3 (clearly labeled) axes, I think it's hard to suggest that the learning curve for digestion the information is incredibly steep. If you actually think how it's set up at the moment is too confusing, I'd love to hear suggestions.

We leave this up on the big screen at the office and it makes it very easy to tell when something untoward is happening with our servers, without really having to devote direct attention to the visualization. We designed it so problems stand out and make themselves known to you.

One of our guiding principles is to move quickly and take user feedback though, so if you've got any constructive criticism, let's keep the discussion going!!!