[schwambrania]

This is great stuff, congrats on launching.

Instead of simply generating a fixed sound for each event, have you considered synthesizing a continuous multi-track score? Like a baseline piece of orchestra music being modulated by the events. Or something like Brian Eno's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_music

Also, perhaps consider streams of data other than discrete events: perhaps continuous metrics like CPU utilization, or stack traces from profiles, or percentiles of latency, or ...

[cortesi]

Yes, absolutely. My initial idea was to synthesise all the audio ourselves, using a native desktop client and libpd. Then I realised that we could test 95% of the idea using web audio and pre-compiled sound snippets. And here we are.

Continuous data is one of the very next things we are implementing, partly because a sufficiently dense discrete set of events becomes a frequency, partly to cater for measurements like load. We plan to indicate magnitude with pitch and volume, but there are some complexities in the API and representation that we're working through first.