Feature

Watch your call flow run, in real time, on the canvas

Open the designer for any flow and see calls light up nodes as they route. Like a circuit diagram with electricity flowing through it.

The call flow designer now overlays live call activity on the canvas. Active calls appear as count badges on each node, color-coded by intensity, with the active path pulsing as traffic flows through it. Toggle and outage states show live, too.

What this lets you do

  • See at a glance which IVR options people actually pick.
  • Find a node where calls pile up — the bottleneck.
  • Watch a customer's call traverse your flow during a support chat: "I'm at the IVR now... I'm in the queue... ok, I'm being routed to extension 102."
  • Verify a flow change took effect by watching the next live call follow the new path.

How it works

A background monitor service connects to Asterisk's AMI and tracks every dialplan jump as a UserEvent. It broadcasts those events over a WebSocket to any open designer browser tabs. The canvas overlays the activity in real time.

When you open a flow:

  • Nodes show a small count badge if calls are currently on them.
  • The badge changes color from green (1 call) → yellow (2-3 calls) → red (4+ calls).
  • A subtle animation indicates active traffic.
  • Toggle Switch nodes show their current State A / State B state.
  • Outage Failover nodes show Healthy / Degraded with extension status.

Worth knowing

The monitor's WebSocket is read-only — there's no risk to live traffic from having a million dashboards open watching a flow. If the monitor drops, the canvas falls back to last-known state and shows a "Disconnected" indicator until it reconnects.

Try it yourself

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Posted by SimuWave