[erlang-questions] Graphical display of messages

[Björn-Egil Dahlberg]

I started something like that ages ago: https://github.com/psyeugenic/fgraph
using wx

But that needs to be productified, or at the very least .. some love.

2015-01-13 15:41 GMT+01:00 David Welton <davidnwelton@REDACTED>:

> Hi,
>
> I'm wondering if something like this exists:
>
> I'd like to create various graphics to show the relationships between
> different processes and/or applications.  I could see a couple of
> different displays:
>
> * The more messages go back and forth, the stronger a link is shown.
> I think graphviz probably has a way to generate this.
>
> * A "swim-lane" graphic that tracks who sent what when.  Useful for
> getting an idea of how a system works.  Not sure how to generate that
> one.
>
> I envision it working like so:
>
> 1) Gather a list of pids for an application.
>
> 2) Trace those pids send/receive operations, and write those to a file.
>
> 3) Process the file and generate the desired graph...
>
> Is there something like that out there already?
>
> This is pretty cool, and similar to what I'm interested in, but not
> exactly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHoWfeNuAN8 -
> https://github.com/krestenkrab/erlubi
>
> Thank you
> --
> David N. Welton
>
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>
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