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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 […]
