LiveRAC - Interactive Visual Exploration of System Management Time-Series Data

Peter McLachlan, Tamara Munzner, Eleftherios Koutsofios, Stephen North. LiveRAC - Interactive Visual Exploration of System Management Time-Series Data. Proc. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'08), p 1483-1492, 2008.

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We present LiveRAC, a visualization system that supports the analysis of large collections of system management timeseries data consisting of hundreds of parameters across thousands of network devices. LiveRAC provides high information density using a reorderable matrix of charts, with semantic zooming adapting each chart's visual representation to the available space. LiveRAC allows side-by-side visual comparison of arbitrary groupings of devices and parameters at multiple levels of detail. A staged design and development process culminated in the deployment of LiveRAC in a production environment. We conducted an informal longitudinal evaluation of LiveRAC to better understand which proposed visualization techniques were most useful in the target environment.

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