# Netflix/vizceral

WebGL visualization for displaying animated traffic graphs

Repository: https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/vizceral
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: graph, traffic, visualization, webgl, monitoring
Last push: 2023-11-28T04:23:58+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3752, "days_push": 1009, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4093, forks 402 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:34.655939+00:00)

## What it is
Vizceral is a JavaScript component that renders animated traffic graphs on a WebGL canvas, visualizing node-and-edge graphs with traffic volume data. It supports multiple levels of detail (global, regional, service-level) with drill-down navigation via clicking nodes.

## Use cases
- visualize traffic flow between microservices
- render animated network topology graphs in the browser
- display real-time traffic volume between regions and services
- drill down from global to service-level traffic views
- build a network monitoring dashboard with WebGL graphics

## When to choose
- you need an animated, interactive traffic graph visualization in a web app
- you want hierarchical drill-down from global to service-level views
- your stack is JavaScript and you can use WebGL (Chrome-first)

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with guaranteed fixes
- you require broad cross-browser support beyond modern Chrome/Safari/Firefox
- you need non-traffic-focused graph layouts or modular layout algorithms

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: maintenance
- function: data-visualization, monitoring
- domain: data-visualization, monitoring, web-development, networking
- platform: browser
- tags: webgl, traffic-graph, animated-visualization, network-topology, frontend-component, javascript, web-server

## Member repositories
- Netflix/vizceral (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.655939+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 2026-08-29T18:23:20.120443+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Netflix/vizceral (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:34.655939+00:00, sha 766ed6af527d)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/vizceral (fetched 2026-08-29T09:15:13.437522+00:00, sha 8dbd846b99c2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.