Khipu: New Traceroute Visualisation Tool

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Hello Atlas friends,

Recently we have been working on a new traceroute visualisation tool, and although we are still in early development, we wanted to release this version to the community to solicit feedback and opinions about it. This will help us focus on the items that are most important to the community as we work to finish it.

You can test out this new visualisation on our beta-ui site, from any traceroute measurement detail page. Just look for the “TRACEVIS” link at the top of the page and click to access it.

There is a labs article that describes the tool in some detail:

https://labs.ripe.net/author/stephen_suess_1/new-prototype-ripe-atlas-traceroute-visualisation-tool/

And here is what it looks like at the moment:

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As always, we hope you find these features useful and we encourage your feedback.

Kind regards,

Stephen

RIPE Atlas UI

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Just a small update:

We have added some features (rtt filtering, time travel) and done a lot of cleanup of the controls tool bar, it now looks more like this:

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Enjoy!

Kind regards,
Stephen
RIPE Atlas UI

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Hi again!

We have further updated the tool and given it a new name: Khipu. Among the new features:

  • Zoom buttons
  • Filtered count
  • Fullscreen mode
  • Improved ASN visualisation, branching logic, and country matching
  • Improved labelling and adaptive scaling

You can read the updated labs article here:

Please let us know what you think.

Kind regards,
Stephen
RIPE Atlas UI

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Hello again Atlas friends,

Based on feedback and testing, we continue to make numerous improvements to Khipu. Since last we updated you:

  • Data enrichment
    • IXP information and highlighting
    • Anycast target lookup
    • Improved ip2asn cache
  • Toggle Probe ID / IP in IP View
  • Multi IP hop support
  • Consolidated nodes for unknown (*) hops
  • Consolidated nodes for unknown ASNs in ASN view
  • Path filter by ASN, IP, or Probe ID
  • Improved usability on tablets and phones
  • Links out from popups to probe detail pages, RIPEstat lookups
  • Khipu now supports DNS and Ping measurements as well
  • Multiple targets shown if domain (resolves to multiple ips/asns)
  • ASN View hierarchy logic refinements
  • QuickLook version (QuickKhipu) now available in use-cases

Plus numerous small visual tweaks and refinements. Please check it out and let us know what you think.

Kind regards,
Stephen
RIPE Atlas UI

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