anvinjain/visual-tail

Collection of visualizations over streaming data

Visual Tail

Framework to connect datasources (ideally streaming ones), transform extracted data entries and feed them to visualizations which accept data events.

Code adapted from Bogey

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Included datasources

Http Streaming Json

Works on json objects sent over http stream (contiguous, not separated by any character) Supports running fetch in a continuous loop and handles streams on every chunk basis.

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Included visualizations

Pong visualization

Pong visualization adapted from Bogey Pong which in turn is heavily inspired by Logstalgia.

Pong represents web server traffic as a giant pong game. Every request is a ball. Successful requests (200 status codes) are returned by the paddle, 400 status codes are misses and 500s are screen-shaking explosions. Requests are grouped together by IP address and floods of requests from the same client are represented as long streams of balls. This makes it really easy to pick out strange or suspicious traffic patterns.

Pong uses the Phaser game engine. It also comes with a bunch of themes based on popular coding color schemes.

Announces visualization

Visualizes announces received by chihaya, a popular torrent tracker. Announces are grouped by infohash and display following stats: left bytes, downloaded bytes and uploaded bytes for every peer announcing for the infohash. Dashboard is kept in sync with the backing data stream which has json logs emitted by chihaya.

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Build and Run

For node v10

npm install gulp build python -m SimpleHTTPServer