The HL7 Timeline Tool provides an overview of the message volume over time for the currently displayed tab. This tool is useful when you are navigating a very large message stream and you want to see the messaging rate over time, or you want to quickly navigate to a particular date/time. In the example below, the message stream contains 100,000 messages. Note the spike in message throughput just before midnight every day.
HL7 Timeline Tool Features
Can handle hundreds of thousands of messages
Clicking on the timeline navigates the editor to that date/time
Zoom In using Shift-Mouse-Left-Click
Zoom Out using Alt-Mouse-Left-Click
Control-Mouse-Drag to count the messages in the highlighted region
Right-Click to export the graph to a png image file
Right-Click to export raw data to Excel