Ask HN: What tools do you use to diagram micro-service architectures?

=> https://gephi.org/ + log aggregation/tracing - see http://opentracing.io/ and http://zipkin.io/

Most of the time I'm using PlantUML [1], since it can live in the same place as the source code, moreover there is a IntelliJ Idea plugin which adds PlantUML support to the IDE [2], nevertheless I think there should be plugins available for all major IDEs.

[1] http://plantuml.com/

[2] https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?idea&id=7017

I like Lucidchart (http://lucidchart.com).

Does what I need, and their google-drive integration makes it easy to keep track of the diagrams and share them with folks.

I recommend https://draw.io/ - it's easy to use, doesn't require an account and you can load/save diagrams from Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox (or, of course, from your device). I've created a lot of diagrams with it and it "just works" :)

libreoffice draw works fine for most of my charting needs. even google drawings is not that bad. draw.io is plain awesome!

www.yuml.me is text based, which I prefer

I use either https://draw.io or Giffy Diagrams for Chrome extension.