Hayshark: A Web-Based System for Remote Visualization of Network Traffic

Antero Taivalsaari

2025

Abstract

Any computer or device connected to the Internet today will be exposed to a significant amount of network traffic from potentially thousands of different IP addresses. The vast majority of this traffic is entirely invisible to ordinary users. In this paper we introduce a system called Hayshark that can be used for visualizing and analyzing network traffic on a multitude of computing devices in a quick ”at-a-glance” fashion. The Hayshark system constructs and dynamically maintains a live 3D graph representation of all incoming network traffic, and presents the data streams in a visual web-based user interface with force-directed graph layout. The user interface includes detailed message statistics and the ability to quickly dive deeper into individual streams if any anomalies are detected in their behavior.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Taivalsaari A. (2025). Hayshark: A Web-Based System for Remote Visualization of Network Traffic. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST; ISBN 978-989-758-772-6, SciTePress, pages 523-532. DOI: 10.5220/0013662200003985

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist25,
author={Antero Taivalsaari},
title={Hayshark: A Web-Based System for Remote Visualization of Network Traffic},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST},
year={2025},
pages={523-532},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013662200003985},
isbn={978-989-758-772-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST
TI - Hayshark: A Web-Based System for Remote Visualization of Network Traffic
SN - 978-989-758-772-6
AU - Taivalsaari A.
PY - 2025
SP - 523
EP - 532
DO - 10.5220/0013662200003985
PB - SciTePress