spekt8 VS saddle-data-graph

In my experience it tends not to be done because there's an inevitable drift between the system as it actually operates and the relevant visualizations and diagrams. I have seen them used as a starting off point at times, although that's also been infrequent.

There is however a growing movement of being able to visualize how a system is functioning at various levels. XState/Statecharts are a good example (https://xstate.js.org/viz/). Another example in the Ops space would be https://github.com/spekt8/spekt8 for K8S. I work at Grafana and we're more or less trying to expose these things in ways that make sense. Our bread and butter is timeseries data but we're adding more in that regard (it's possible to build node graphs from running systems).

Is it possible to integrate this with a library like networkx? D2 has great layouts and seems very simple to create ad-hoc graphs, but it would also be nice to support graph data structures that you can slice up how you want, like this https://github.com/hammeiam/saddle-data-graph/blob/master/Sa...

I took a stab at writing my own UML-type diagram in Python using networkx and rendered with dot. Since it's a real network instead of just pictures, I can slice it however I want it (eg "show me all dependencies of page X" or "show me all nodes of type 'state'"

https://github.com/hammeiam/saddle-data-graph/blob/master/Sa... (scroll down for images)