# koudelka/visualixir

A process/message visualizer for BEAM nodes.💪👁

Repository: https://github.com/koudelka/visualixir
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/visualixir
Language: CSS
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: elixir, visualizer, beam, erlang
Last push: 2022-12-09T04:55:55+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3952, "days_push": 1363, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1326, forks 47 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:22.697105+00:00)

## What it is
Visualixir is a visualizer for BEAM (Erlang/Elixir) nodes built with Elixir, Phoenix, and d3, showing live process graphs and message sequence charts. It is primarily a teaching tool for exploring the process ecosystem inside BEAM nodes.

## Use cases
- visualize processes in an erlang node
- trace messages between elixir processes
- teach students how the beam process ecosystem works
- debug message passing in a distributed erlang cluster
- explore what happens inside an iex session
- watch process interactions in a beam cluster

## When to choose
- you are learning or teaching BEAM concurrency and want a visual view of processes and messages
- you want an interactive, fun way to explore a local or dev BEAM node
- you need live message sequence charts between selected pids

## When to avoid
- you need production monitoring - the author explicitly warns against running it on production nodes
- you need serious profiling or metrics rather than visualization
- you rely on Safari or Firefox, where SVG performance is poor

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, data-visualization, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, microservices, education
- platform: elixir, browser
- tags: beam, erlang, process-visualization, message-tracing, phoenix, d3, teaching-tool, web-server

## Member repositories
- koudelka/visualixir (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.697105+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:46:23.341748+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/koudelka/visualixir (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:22.697105+00:00, sha 901de39cfbf1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.