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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...
Circonus On The Raspberry Pi
There are a lot of interesting monitoring tasks, that can facilitated with a Raspberry Pi (e.g. here, there). Circonus does not officially support "Raspbian Linux on armv6/v7" as a deployment target, but given the steady interest in this topic, we took the time to...
Our Values
Values Create Value In the tech industry, you read more blog posts on product features than you do on core values. At Circonus, we see them as inextricably linked – values create value – which is exactly what positions us to deliver results for our customers. Values...
High Volume Ingest
Like it or not, high-volume time series databases face one relentless challenge: ingestion. Unlike many other databases, TSDBs tend to record things that have already happened. Records are inserted with "past time stamps" (even if they're often just a few milliseconds...
UI Redesign FAQ
Today, the Circonus team is releasing the first round of our new User Interface changes. Since we started developing Circonus 7 years ago, we’ve worked with many customers in different spaces with different needs. Our team talked with many engineers about how they...
The Circonus Istio Mixer Adapter
Here at Circonus, we have a long heritage of open source software involvement. So when we saw that Istio provided a well designed interface to syndicate service telemetry via adapters, we knew that a Circonus adapter would be a natural fit. Istio has been designed to...
Thank you, ZFS
If you’ve had a technical conversation with anyone at Circonus, there are very likely two technologies that came up: ZFS and DTrace. While we love DTrace, ZFS has literally changed our world and made some personal “whoopsies” out of what could have been otherwise...