Today we launched dashboard.fastpubsub.com — a real-time monitoring dashboard for the FastPubSub overlay network.
The dashboard shows a live world map of all active PoPs (Points of Presence) and the connections between them. You can see in real time how our overlay routes compare to direct internet paths: which routes are faster through the overlay, where the public internet has problems (unreachable hosts, abnormally slow links), and how much latency we save on each hop.
- Live latency map — every node and every measured route between them, updated in real time via WebSocket.
- Overlay vs Direct comparison — each route shows the direct internet RTT and the overlay RTT side by side, with the saving in milliseconds and percent.
- Network anomaly detection — unreachable routes (ping timeout) and abnormally slow routes are highlighted separately so you can see where the public internet is struggling.
- Adjustable filters — sliders to set the minimum saving threshold and the slow-route threshold, so you can focus on the routes that matter.
The dashboard itself is built on top of FastPubSub — it uses our own WebSocket pub/sub infrastructure to stream measurement data from every PoP to the browser. It is both a monitoring tool and a live demo of the network in action.
We are also getting ready to build the first SDKs. The goal is to provide simple, lightweight client libraries for major languages so developers can integrate FastPubSub into their applications with just a few lines of code. More details on SDK plans coming soon.