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Some notes about graph and charting software after an online conversation, for future references Graph/Charting software:

• Graphite - a scalable real-time graphing system,
• PlotKit - Javascript Chart Plotting,
• Bluff - a Gruff port in Javascript,
• Flot - jQuery based,
• MooChart - Mootools based,
• RaphaelJS - Javascript SVG/VML based,
• TufteGraph - Tufte-inspired and JQuery-based,
• Seer - a Ruby wrapper for Google Visualization API

Books about information representation and design:

• Information Dashboard Design and Now You See It by Stephen Few,
• the Tufte books: The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Envisioning Information, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative, Beautiful Evidence

Server monitoring/graphing services with UI much better than what is often found in this field:

• Scout
• Server Density
• Lithium