[HN Gopher] Colony Graphs: Visualizing the Cloud (2014)
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       Colony Graphs: Visualizing the Cloud (2014)
        
       Author : gszr
       Score  : 54 points
       Date   : 2024-03-01 13:57 UTC (9 hours ago)
        
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       | Solvency wrote:
       | Why isn't there software that lets you visualize/zoom/interact
       | with a live cloud status like this using D3? Or does Azure have
       | something like this in its admin tools?
        
       | sigmonsays wrote:
       | i've created graphs of arbitrary sizes and loaded the data into a
       | graphing database for machines on the network.
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       | by tracking network connections and configuration, you can build
       | some really interesting graphs. It gets even more interesting if
       | you overlay data, like roles or users.
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       | With a graphing database it becomes easy to query and render N
       | degree graphs of connected devices, pops, roles.
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       | it'd definitely interesting approach to visualizing systems and
       | networks and would recommend it to anyone
        
       | txutxu wrote:
       | > My jaw dropped when I first saw this.
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       | This is why cron tasks, always, should have some blocking (like
       | flock) and/or timeout (like timeout from coreutils) and some kind
       | of notification, better if it's something external to the server,
       | like healthchecks.io
        
       | FredPret wrote:
       | So cool!
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       | Here's how to make them:
       | https://www.brendangregg.com/ColonyGraphs/cloud.html#Impleme...
        
       | lmeyerov wrote:
       | Seeing an entire subnet or fleet is fascinating. I hadn't seen
       | the perf engineer side before, which is interesting. Process
       | graphs are so fun!
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       | We get involved in a lot of graph scenarios, and this one we
       | frequently see in the security side, where folks are coming up
       | with detections or investigating incidents. Imagine checking for
       | shell calls with unexpected arguments, or a fleet not running as
       | uniformly as expected. There was a post a few days ago about
       | OSQuery -- combining these together opens a lot.
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       | Edit: Meant to add -- we are launching louie.ai to 'talk' to your
       | DB/SIEM/etc and get these kind of rich visual investigations, if
       | of interest to anyone. Think notebooks, dashboards,
       | orchestrations, API endpoints, etc . Again, we already expect
       | this use case for security folks, but we are internally using
       | louie.ai for our own general observability tasks, and I'd happy
       | to onboard net eng etc folks wanting to do that too!
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
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       |  _Visualizing All Processes in a Datacenter_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15180048 - Sept 2017 (5
       | comments)
        
       | malkia wrote:
       | Reminds me of https://www.graphistry.com/
        
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