On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Corey Edwards <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/08/2012 02:29 PM, Daniel C. wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm taking a class on data visualization. For my final project I plan >> to write a piece of software that will create a visualization of >> network traffic. Ideally, this will be something that's genuinely >> useful to network admins. To get started, I've got a few questions: >> >> - What problems do you have that a visualization tool could help >> solve? Are they fairly concrete (i.e. "I need to monitor all traffic >> to port X on machines Y-AF") or something more... heuristic (for lack >> of a better word), such as keeping an eye on overall traffic trends >> and using your experience in looking at the pretty pictures to spot >> when something unusual is happening? > > I've got the tools to see what's happening at any point in time, but I > would love to be able to compare graphs. How does this week compare to > 12 weeks ago or last year? How do these 5 circuit compare to each other? > How quickly are they growing, both compared to themselves and others? > > I can give you a specific example that happened just this week. One of > my circuits went from 35mbps to 15mbps due to a traffic adjustment of my > peer. It took a week before my coworker discovered the change and we > were able to rearrange our bandwidth to compensate. While it's true we > could have done a better job of watching all those graphs, having a tool > that would highlight those sort of changes would be ever so helpful.
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