# Analytics / Visualization of Operational Mainframe
**URL:** https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/analytics-visualization-of-operational-mainframe/6073
**Category:** General Knowledgebase
**Created:** [September 28, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/analytics-visualization-of-operational-mainframe/6073 "2020-09-28T00:01:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@DavidWagner](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/DavidWagner)
#### Post date: [September 28, 2020, 12:01am UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/analytics-visualization-of-operational-mainframe/6073/1 "2020-09-28T00:01:40Z")
Over time I have experienced / seen a lack of ICT operational transparency for the Mainframe. This appears to have led to a perception that Mainframes are too expensive and too complex feeding the let’s get off the Mainframe conversation;
Recently I encountered a product from IBM called the Common Data Provider which I understood fed in near real time SMF records to Elastic Search for visualization via Kibana.
> **[IBM Knowledge Center](https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGE3R_2.1.0/cdp_overview.html)**
This product enables near real time dashboards for the Mainframe and if the data is sent to something like a Data Lake, historical analytics / analytics of combined MI & ICT data.
Is anyone aware of an initiative in Open Source addressing this?
What I am hoping is the concept represented via the CDP can be brought to the Open Source world.
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### Author:  [@jbostian](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/jbostian)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2020, 1:22pm UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/analytics-visualization-of-operational-mainframe/6073/2 "2020-09-30T13:22:23Z")
Hi David, welcome to the community. I’m not a CDP expert, but I have looked at it before, and one can think of many different ways it could be used in an open source environment. I haven’t pursued any specific uses of this because of bandwidth reasons, but I’m sure there would be others interested in this idea as well.
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### Author:  [@DavidWagner](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/u/DavidWagner)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2020, 8:34am UTC](https://community.openmainframeproject.org/t/analytics-visualization-of-operational-mainframe/6073/3 "2020-10-01T08:34:54Z")
Hi jbostian, thank you for responding it was a good surprise to see, as I was hoping someone else would see the opportunity. The challenge for me as I am new to this is how do you communicate this to a wider audience?