Hi all,
Thinking about various lab health and other issues has made me want to see the current and historical state of a lab in a more sohpisticated way.
I've messed around in inkscape a bit to show the sort of thing I mean -- can you guess what the attached image is meant to represent? I hope it's fairly obvious, or there isn't much point in all this.
To be clear:
* each board gets a horizontal line * time increases along the x-axis * at a given moment, the line being narrow for a board indicates no job is running * a narrow green line means IDLE, a narrow grey line means OFFLINE * a wider line means a job is running, or alternatively jobs are represented by fatter blobs * a red blob is a job that did not complete * a green blob is a job that completed ok
Ideally, the view would support zooming and scrolling.
Mousing over a job should display a summary of the job, and clicking it should go to the log page.
We could probably have a checkbox that would hide non-healthcheck jobs.
We might want a variant that has a line for each device type, and somehow aggegrates the jobs running on different boards. Not sure how this would work though.
I think we are storing all the information we need to create this view (in the DeviceStateTransition table).
Do you guys think we should create this view? I would really like to have it, but I don't have a clear intuition on how hard it would be. I think it would make sense to mostly implement it in js, using some kind of js library. I don't know of any library that would specifically help (is there a name for this sort of visualization I can google for?) but I'm sure it could be done with raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) and maybe d3 (http://mbostock.github.com/d3/) but I'm not really super up-to-date on the latest whizzery in js visualization space.
Cheers, mwh
On 4/3/12 7:50 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Hi all,
Thinking about various lab health and other issues has made me want to see the current and historical state of a lab in a more sohpisticated way.
I've messed around in inkscape a bit to show the sort of thing I mean -- can you guess what the attached image is meant to represent? I hope it's fairly obvious, or there isn't much point in all this.
To be clear:
- each board gets a horizontal line
- time increases along the x-axis
- at a given moment, the line being narrow for a board indicates no job is running
- a narrow green line means IDLE, a narrow grey line means OFFLINE
- a wider line means a job is running, or alternatively jobs are represented by fatter blobs
- a red blob is a job that did not complete
- a green blob is a job that completed ok
Ideally, the view would support zooming and scrolling.
The JS Flot library has zoom/scroll support (but see comments below)
<snip>
We might want a variant that has a line for each device type, and somehow aggegrates the jobs running on different boards. Not sure how this would work though.
I think this would be valuable, but I'd like to hear ideas about how to aggregate the data up.
<snip>
Do you guys think we should create this view?
I like it!
I would really like to have it, but I don't have a clear intuition on how hard it would be. I think it would make sense to mostly implement it in js, using some kind of js library. I don't know of any library that would specifically help (is there a name for this sort of visualization I can google for?) but I'm sure it could be done with raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) and maybe d3 (http://mbostock.github.com/d3/) but I'm not really super up-to-date on the latest whizzery in js visualization space.
I used Flot for the benchmark visuals. Flot claims a lot and has different plug-ins. However, I found the plug-ins don't always work together when you need to combine a couple. It also seems the main community wasn't really accepting some fixes I'd think were needed. I'd be happy to chat with you about more details, but it might not be the right tool for this problem.
-andy
On Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:18:34 -0500, Andy Doan andy.doan@linaro.org wrote:
On 4/3/12 7:50 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
Hi all,
Thinking about various lab health and other issues has made me want to see the current and historical state of a lab in a more sohpisticated way.
I've messed around in inkscape a bit to show the sort of thing I mean -- can you guess what the attached image is meant to represent? I hope it's fairly obvious, or there isn't much point in all this.
To be clear:
- each board gets a horizontal line
- time increases along the x-axis
- at a given moment, the line being narrow for a board indicates no job is running
- a narrow green line means IDLE, a narrow grey line means OFFLINE
- a wider line means a job is running, or alternatively jobs are represented by fatter blobs
- a red blob is a job that did not complete
- a green blob is a job that completed ok
Ideally, the view would support zooming and scrolling.
The JS Flot library has zoom/scroll support (but see comments below)
<snip> > We might want a variant that has a line for each device type, and > somehow aggegrates the jobs running on different boards. Not sure how > this would work though.
I think this would be valuable, but I'd like to hear ideas about how to aggregate the data up.
Yeah. Needs thinking.
<snip> > Do you guys think we should create this view?
I like it!
I would really like to have it, but I don't have a clear intuition on how hard it would be. I think it would make sense to mostly implement it in js, using some kind of js library. I don't know of any library that would specifically help (is there a name for this sort of visualization I can google for?) but I'm sure it could be done with raphael (http://raphaeljs.com/) and maybe d3 (http://mbostock.github.com/d3/) but I'm not really super up-to-date on the latest whizzery in js visualization space.
I used Flot for the benchmark visuals. Flot claims a lot and has different plug-ins. However, I found the plug-ins don't always work together when you need to combine a couple. It also seems the main community wasn't really accepting some fixes I'd think were needed. I'd be happy to chat with you about more details, but it might not be the right tool for this problem.
Flot seems to me to be oriented around drawing charts, which is not quite what I want to do, sadly. "Timelines" e.g. http://www.simile-widgets.org/wiki/Timeline are close, but also not quite there.
Cheers, mwh
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