Nothing to see here. Move along.
I'll probably never finish this. And I don't want to slight dstat in any way. It's really slick and has everything you need.
Except plugins of course. I mean, it has a lot of plugins built in. But I don't see tons of plugins to download… I mean, there are some, but not a ton. Why is that exactly?
Well, mostly cuz it has everything you need.
I tried to write a traffic class plugin for dstat that would show me all my traffic classes meaningfully in the dstat scrolly. I made it work, but it wasn't a satisfying experience and I don't use it.
I started writing this instead.
My actual goal is just to write some hobby code. I don't intend to actually ever finish this project. I mean, you never know I guess.
I'm trying to learn to use pluggy to design a dstat-like program that's fun to extend. I'd like for it to feel like dstat but be really fun for people to write plugins for… plugins, btw, for both content (like reading /proc or iptables or whatever) and visualizations.
It'd be slick if there was a regular print() scroller and a curses scroller
you can interact with, and a bunch of plugins that generate directed acyclic
graphs (of what I have no idea) and something that forwards to Splunk and blah
blah blah.
Move along. I'm just having fun here.