swactor-development-history/dashboard-improvements-research.md

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Dashboard Improvements — Research Phase

Summary

Researched 10 comparable monitoring/dashboard systems to inform swactor's dashboard improvement plan.

Systems Analyzed

  • Actor runtimes: Erlang Observer (GUI/CLI/Web), Akka Insights, Ray Dashboard, Orleans Dashboard
  • Async/runtime tools: tokio-console, Lunatic
  • Message/infrastructure: RabbitMQ Management, Consul UI, Nomad UI
  • Web frameworks: Phoenix LiveDashboard

Key Findings

  1. Time-series history is table-stakes — every system provides it
  2. Actor detail drill-down is universal (Observer has 6-tab process info, Orleans has grain state inspection)
  3. Search/filter exists in every system
  4. Warning/anomaly detection (tokio-console's lint system) is a high-value differentiator
  5. Topology visualization (Consul golden metrics, Observer supervision tree) is rare but powerful

Implementation Plan

8 feature stages defined (see CLAUDE/notes/feature-stages/):

  1. Time-Series History Infrastructure
  2. Actor Detail Drill-Down
  3. Search and Filter
  4. Per-Worker Utilization Visualization
  5. Warning/Anomaly Detection
  6. Actor-to-Actor Message Flow Topology
  7. Per-Actor Logging
  8. Per-Message-Type Breakdown