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Faultd Update – Next Generation Alerting

Circonus will soon be releasing our next generation fault detection system, faultd (fault-dee). Faultd is an internal component of our

Circonus Updates, Fall 2018

We’ve recently pushed out several exciting improvements to Circonus. With this release, you can expect the following improvements: Stream Tags

How Safe is Your Home’s Air? The Internet of Things and Air Quality Monitoring during Wildfires

IoT-driven monitoring of Air Quality during the 2018 California Wildfires Over the past few weeks, the Camp Fire in Northern

Introducing Circonus Stream Tags

Gain greater insight into system behavior in aggregate, across multiple dimensions. A “metric” is a measurement, or value, representing the

The Problem with Percentiles – Aggregation brings Aggravation

Percentiles have become one of the primary service level indicators to represent real systems monitoring performance. When used correctly, they

A Guide to Service Level Objectives, Part 3: Quantifying Your SLOs

A guide to the importance of, and techniques for, accurately quantifying your Service Level Objectives. This is the third in

Quantifying WordPress Performance Improvements with circonus-logwatch

Deriving meaningful insights from third-party logs has always been a difficult yet necessary task. Most analysis occurs after-the-fact, when something

A Guide To Service Level Objectives, Part 2: It All Adds Up

A simple primer on the complicated statistical analysis behind setting your Service Level Objectives. This is the second in a

Latency SLOs Done Right

In their excellent SLO-workshop at SRECon2018 (program) Liz Fong-Jones, Kristina Bennett and Stephen Thorne (Google) presented some best practice examples for Latency

Monitoring DevOps: Where are we now? [Infographic]

Our first DevOps & Monitoring Survey was conducted at ChefConf 2015. This year, we’ve created an infographic based on the

A Guide To Service Level Objectives, Part 1: SLOs & You

Four steps to ensure that you hit your targets – and learn from your successes. This is the first in

Air Quality Sensors and IoT Systems Monitoring

2017 was a bad year for fires in California. The Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County in October destroyed whole neighborhoods

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

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

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.