Vortex Telemetry
High-Throughput Edge Analytics & WebSocket Streaming Dashboard
Vortex Telemetry
High-Throughput Edge Analytics & WebSocket Streaming Dashboard
Overview
Vortex Telemetry is an edge-native real-time monitoring and anomaly detection platform designed for distributed microservices.
It aggregates 50,000+ events per second over encrypted WebSockets, compiles live latency heatmaps, and provides automated anomaly alerts with sub-millisecond trace resolution.
By using double-buffered HTML5 Canvas renderers instead of heavy DOM SVG elements, the browser dashboard maintains 60 FPS even during high-burst incidents.
The Problem
During traffic spikes or production outages, traditional monitoring tools crash or introduce multi-minute aggregation delays, blinding on-call engineers when clarity is needed most.
- •Rendering 10,000 live log rows bloated browser memory beyond 1.5GB and crashed tabs
- •Bursty network spikes dropped connections without automated backpressure queuing
The Solution
We built a dual-layer architecture: a clustered backend using Redis Streams to absorb bursty traffic, paired with an HTML5 Canvas rendering engine.
- •Hardware-accelerated HTML5 Canvas charts rendering 100k data points at 60 FPS
- •Resilient WebSocket circular buffers absorbing sudden network hiccups automatically
Results & Impact
Deployed across 12,000 active instances with unmatched operational reliability.
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