Colony Graphs: Visualizing the Cloud
What does the cloud look like? As a customer, you may have thousands of instances running a variety of applications. As a cloud provider, you may have thousands of customers, running everything imaginable.
A process colony graph, or "ptree graph", is a way to visualize your live application environment, based on basic process details. It illustrates the number, types, and activity of your applications, and allow you to spot unusual or problem areas.The following sections show ptree graphs at inc...
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