bvckup2 disk IO graph tool
Infrastructure
disk io monitoring
SHOW HN2018
207points
69comments
#170of 2,155 in 2018
Top 8%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
9 positive, 20 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 7 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Design: 1 for, 4 againstIdea: 5 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, novel log-band visualization
From 3 comments
I've never seen something similar before either, and it is a very useful visualization. I'm thinking about how to do something similar in my monitoring. How would you extend it…
LukeShu on HNThis visualization is really cool and innovative! It's useful for seeing the changes in the stream of values even if they are small relative to absolute magnitude (e.g., 1000001…
arnioxux on HNThis is a really cool visualization, and a nice implementation of an idea. Thanks for sharing it
cbcoutinho on HN
Nice simple Win32 example program
From 1 comment
And a great way for anyone wanting to start some windows programming to see an example of a nice simple program with a GUI that interacts with WIN32 apis
IMTDb on HN
Objections
Text and labels too small to read
From 3 comments
Unreadable for me on a 15 inch 1920x1080 monitor. I can't see the MB/KB/b labels. It's tiny and should be resizable. I don't know what the lines indicate, so I can only see real…
sgc on HNI like it, the size is way to small though. Resource Monitor gives this information as well btw:edit, reread your post for the arbitrary file size thing-makes more sense now.…
productionx on HNgreat tool however the font size is really small and hard too read
boromi on HN
Not usable on mobile browsers
From 1 comment
Recommend testing the site on mobile. I stared confused at a black screen for a while before realizing that it had a massive fixed width and I had to pan right to see anything.
ryandrake on HN
Closed source, cannot be audited
From 1 comment
I came to the comments to look for a link to the source. I'm a systems programmer but don't have much knowledge of how you guys do things in Win32. A ~70kb executable with nice…
defgeneric on HN
Requests
Linux support
From 1 comment
Really neat! Any plans for Linux support? I would love to do some guided optimizations using this tool.
nemo1618 on HN
Color-coding or gaps between bands
From 3 comments
This visualization is really cool and innovative! It's useful for seeing the changes in the stream of values even if they are small relative to absolute magnitude (e.g., 1000001…
arnioxux on HNMaybe you can use slightly different color/background color for the bands? That way it's more obvious that the 3 bands are separated instead of one continuous band.
dracodoc on HNDifferent color could be a little bit distracting for minimal design, maybe there could be gaps between bands. The bands are independent with each other, a 999M 999K 999B band…
dracodoc on HN
Zoom or scroll the timeline on the X-axis
From 2 comments
I've never seen something similar before either, and it is a very useful visualization. I'm thinking about how to do something similar in my monitoring. How would you extend it…
LukeShu on HNI like it, the size is way to small though. Resource Monitor gives this information as well btw:edit, reread your post for the arbitrary file size thing-makes more sense now.…
productionx on HN
Questions
How is disk IO read from Windows?
From 1 comment
How are you reading disk I/O rates? Is there a logs from Windows on this?
gg3 on HN
Will it be open sourced?
From 1 comment
Nice work. Do you plan to open source it?
arunc on HN
Alternatives named
Grafana log-scale axes
From 2 comments
Its a standard option in Grafana https://community.grafana.com/t/advanced-graphing-part3-right-y-axis-log-scales/400
tlarkworthy on HNIn servers you can take those disk IO (and many other) metrics with telegraf, store them in a local/remote (storing locally may change the disk IO measurements, but probably it…
gmuslera on HN
iStat Menus and XMeters
From 1 comment
This just reminds me that I miss something like iStat Menus [0] on Windows. Process Explorer [1] can show some small graphs as tray icons but there is not much detail visible…
hs86 on HN