A while back someone asked me a question about server footprints. It kinda stuck with me, so last inDay I spent an hour or two fiddling around with d3js treemaps and came up with this:
It’s kinda slick in that you can click into a given environment and get a breakdown:
…but it gets pretty illegible pretty quickly outside of the top few things installed. Clicking into an individual fabric:
I don’t know how useful it is in this state, but it really is quite lovely. It could probably be further refined with some filtering/thresholding, and it might be cool to have it show how footprint has changed over time…but that’s a project for another (in)day.
Anyhow, if you wanna play around with the code I stuffed it into git:
https://git.corp.linkedin.com:1367/plugins/gitiles/csnyder/hacks/+/master/footprint/
Or if you’re just interested in clicking around on a working copy:
http://csnyder-ld2.linkedin.biz/footprint/
(Fair warning: it’s just running on my desktop so it could go away at any time…)
Happy fiddling!