1.) Even though the person who hired us fell in love with the set of NORAD from the movie Wargames with walls of giant monitors, not one of the NOC analysts sitting at their desks ever once looked up at the big screen (unless it was late at night and they replaced the network map with a first-person shooter) to do their job. They always look at the event viewer at their desk.
The big wall of screens is purely to impress customers/investors during visits.
(Though we do want one but only because they're cool.)
I'd love to hear some war stories and see how you work with other teams.
If you want to say that this is a managerial dashboard wankfest that may indicate a company more obsessed with metrics than with building a great product, just say it.
Edit: whoops, didn't notice it was $$$$.
I know either is a small fraction of the cost of the overall device, but you'd still want some kind of benefit for the price increase.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121...
These guys are hooking in to their analytics package. The web analytics services we connect to include Google Analytics, Chartbeat, GoSquared & Mixpanel natively, but you can use our push & pull APIs to connect custom widgets.
