After some days off last week I’m on it again… GInstruments definitely on the way I’d like it to be.
First things first: Fortunately Hyperic had placed an exception-statement into its GPL-licensed SIGAR – which allows to include the SIGAR binaries in – for example – Apache-licensed works. For me that’s really good news, because this means GInstruments could also be used in productive environments which I think often would not be GPL-compliant.
Second: One of the basic things I always wanted to have seems really close now. At the moment GInstruments only displays your current system usage – not too useful, because most times you’d be interested in the usage over time, say for the past 30 seconds or so. So that’s one of the core features I’ll be implementing before releasing anything to the public – sorry for the delay, I’m very busy in other projects right now, too.
For the next few weeks I’ll also be testing on various kinds of systems (Windows, Linux, …) and of course testing on Google AppEngine whether they support all the necessary features.
And for a great user experience I’ll also be working very hard on a prototype of the UI.
Some things that will probably make it into the first public release include:
- logging system usage and events to a set of CSV-files (configurable in later versions)
- usage graphs on the client-side using flot
- more? yeah, sure!
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