The Blog. From Circonus
Comprehensive Container-Based Service Monitoring with Kubernetes and Istio
Operating containerized infrastructure brings with it a new set of challenges. You need to instrument your containers, evaluate your API endpoint performance, and identify bad actors within your infrastructure. The Istio service mesh enables instrumentation of APIs...
Less Toil, More Coil – Telemetry Analysis with Python
This was a frequent request we were hearing from many customers: "How can I analyze my data with Python?" The Python Data Science toolchain (Jupyter/NumPy/pandas) offers a wide spectrum of advanced data analytics capabilities. Therefore, seamless integration with this...
Cassandra Query Observability with Libpcap and Protocol Observer
Opinions vary in recent online discussions regarding systems and software observability. Some state that observability is a replacement for monitoring. Others that they are parallel mechanisms, or that one is a subset of another (not to mention where tracing fits into...
Effective Management of High Volume Numeric Data with Histograms
How do you capture and organize billions of measurements per second such that you can answer a rich set of queries effectively (percentiles, counts below X, aggregations across streams), and you don’t blow through your AWS budget in minutes? To effectively manage...
Linux System Monitoring with eBPF
The Linux kernel is an abundant component of modern IT systems. It provides the critical services of hardware abstraction and time-sharing to applications. The classical metrics for monitoring Linux are among the most well known metrics in monitoring: CPU utilization,...
Circonus Update: New UI Rollout
The Circonus team is excited to announce the release of our newest update, which includes sweeping changes to the Circonus Monitoring Platform UI. This update is part of an ongoing effort to optimize the Circonus UI for performance and usability on mobile devices,...
SREcon 2018 Americas
Getting paged at 11pm on New Year's Eve because the application code used sprintf %d on a 32 bit system and your ids just passed 4.295 billion, sending the ids negative and crashing your object service. A wakeup call at 2 am (or is it 3 am?) on the 'spring forward'...
Grafana heatmaps with IRONdb have landed
GrafanaCon EU 2018 Recap A couple weeks ago at GrafanaCon EU 2018 we announced the beta release of the IRONdb Data Source for Grafana. We've continued to make improvements to some features, such as the heatmap visualization of histogram data. In this blog post, we'll...
Announcing the beta release of the IRONdb Grafana Data Source
Our team is at GrafanaCon 2018 in Amsterdam this week, and we are pleased to share the news of the beta release of our IRONdb Grafana Data Source. IRONdb has been in production at some of the largest technology companies in the world for nearly a year now. The release...