[Engine-devel] [UX] how to design a bar/line chart?

[Itamar Heim]

On 11/05/2013 11:50 AM, Tomas Jelinek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There is a feature request [1] which aims to replace the resource utilization graphs (for example the cpu utilization from vm tab) by some which shows not only
> the actual percentage which is not so useful by some monitor graph.
>
> I have the following concerns:
> - I can think of a bar chart or a line chart and not sure what would be better.
> - Not sure if replacing the current chart with a bar/line chart would make the statistics readable enough. Maybe if you hover the chart it could pop up a bigger version of the chart? Or not needed?
> - Would it be enough to have it in one color? Or should it be something like "the bigger the utilization the more red"?
>
> Please advise from the UX perspective. As soon as the final design will be a bit more clear I will provide a feature page.
>
> Thank you,
> Tomas
>
> [1]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=803251
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a moving trend graph (just like fedora's system monitor for 
cpu/ram/network) is what i have in mind. so a line chart.
you could have a single chart with different lines for cpu/ram/network, 
or what seems to be more common, a chart per monitored fact