The start-up, based in London, aims to innovate how monitoring dashboards look. This week the company presented updates to it’s layout (Screencast)
Earlier this year, when researching about fresh approaches to monitoring, a combination of „if this, then that“ and „dashboards“ lead to Dataloop.io. Yesterday the company announced an upgrade to their User Interface, as shown in a short screencast published on YouTube.
Briefly, the background: Part of the Orbit project will be tackle novel ways to tackle monitoring. From out point of view it is a needed addition to the fault-tolerant technologies being developed by the technical partners (IBM Israel and Red Hat).
The work in this particular work package focuses on creating novel interfaces to enable monitoring IT infrastructure. One first step this year was to survey the current state of the art in this segment. There are numerous offerings. Data visualization for IT is a growth area and provides room for innovation.
Based on the initial work we defined three goals for the demonstrator which are part of this project (as an addition to the technical work for fault-tolerant resources).
- The next generation of IT dashboards should be easier to use and help to avoid or manage downtime.
- The dashboards/applications should provide reporting for technical and non-technical top management at the same time.
- There should be clever, modern-day notification systems, based on the principle of „If this, then that“ (that’s a website, too). The goal for notification should be to help a team re-produce the source of an outage or error, provide ample ways to let developers reproduce and solve the problem. Plus, there should be a „memory“ for the patterns that led to solving the problem, in order to optimize the system accordingly.
That sounds simple at first sight, but is not.
One to watch
This is why, earlier this year, after doing research on the web we found the thinking and ideas from Dataloop.io promising.The founding team has a track record of previous successful projects. As Dataloop.io put it: „there is room for innovation“ in this space.
From the Orbit project perspective we will focus not an a full dashboard, but on specific visualizations to provide a lens for looking into how an outage started, how it was solved and how to learn from such events.



