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Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

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Sorry to be the one posting a tangent (looks like a nice tool!), but please rewrite "for the modern man" to something more gender neutral.

Project author here. We don't want to exclude anyone - I updated it to "developers."

Have you thought of writing the metrics collection part (and eventually the whole thing) in Go? You would get the stand-alone distribution right away and would keep people from installing any extra dependencies.

EDIT: Fixed typo.

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#52
post #46

They said they use it on their own production servers so of course I couldn't resist... http://scoutapp.com:5555/ Really nice looking monitoring, though. I think it's fun to see the stats scrolling by.

Ha yeah - we opened up a port in iptables for this so we don't have to ssh tunnel in to see stats. Obviously, if you're concerned about exposing numbers, you can view via an ssh tunnel instead of opening a port.

I see you are using SVG to render the charts. What are your thoughts on SVG vs Canvas for these types of apps?

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#53
Did you roll your own SVG chart lib for this? If not, mind sharing which one you're using? It's very nice.

If you were to make it so I can open a socket or websocket to it (perhaps on a second, internal port) and publish whatever data I want, that'd be all kinds of nifty. That is, make it so I can just start spraying numbers at ws://myhost:5556/Really%20Awesome%20Data and with that a nice auto-scaled chart magically appears in the dashboard.

Edit: Oh, I see a github ribbon. Maybe you'll see a pull request sometime soon...

Edit 2: Anyone wondering about my original question - the charts are built using the D3 project.

http://d3js.org/

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#54
post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Political correctness is such a depressing drain on the world. Leave it how it is. It's fine. Reminds me of when they tried to rename Manholes to "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women. If you're offended that something is named a 'manhole', you probably have too much time on your hands.

Let me guess, you're a man?

Wow, that was a hell of a sexist remark.

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#55

Sorry to be the one posting a tangent (looks like a nice tool!), but please rewrite "for the modern man" to something more gender neutral.

I can't tell if you're trolling or not... The use of man in this context is androgynous. It's merely an abbreviated use of "mankind," which is an abbreviated use of "humankind." I'm sorry if you're upset by this wording, but it's not inappropriate.

You're thinking of "modern man", not "the modern man".

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#56
I'm glad to see the sparklines. I'm worried that the CPU sparklines in particular are likely to mislead due to the lack of a common vertical axis scale. I suspect Tufte might advise two graphs: one with a fixed 0…100 axis scale, one "zoomed". The former would help you compare CPU history between apps, and sport a shaded background region to indicate the range of the latter.

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#57

Did you roll your own SVG chart lib for this? If not, mind sharing which one you're using? It's very nice. If you were to make it so I can open a socket or websocket to it (perhaps on a second, internal port) and publish whatever data I want, that'd be all kinds of nifty. That is, make it so I can just start spraying numbers at ws://myhost:5556/Really%20Awesome%20Data and with that a nice auto-scaled chart magically…

I've been searching for something like that for a while now. A metrics web framework that consumes and renders json/edn would be interesting.

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#58

Sorry to be the one posting a tangent (looks like a nice tool!), but please rewrite "for the modern man" to something more gender neutral.

Political correctness is such a depressing drain on the world. Leave it how it is. It's fine. Reminds me of when they tried to rename Manholes to "Personnel Access Units" to avoid offending women. If you're offended that something is named a 'manhole', you probably have too much time on your hands.

What if a website with nursing resources was subtitled "...for the caring woman"?

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#59

Looks nice, but it slowly turns my laptop into a fireball and pegs an entire core (older laptop).

Sorry. Just FYI, we've clocked the CPU usage of the scout_realtime daemon at 1% on an Intel Xeon 2.40GHz CPU.

I think we're talking about the browser side of things. I haven't investigated why, but it pegs the cpu on my macbook pro in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox.

It seems pretty light on the server side.

Re: Show HN: Real-time server monitoring in your browser

#60
post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, yes, I do tend to disregard claims that "everything is fine" from those who are not being aggrieved.

How would you respond if theknown99 turns out to be a woman?

Actually I'm not sure. However, I certainly don't want to "out" theknown99 as either gender.

I will add an addendum to my response as it is overly aggressive.

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