The Blog. From Circonus
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...
Some Like It Flat
JSON rules the world, much to our collective chagrin. I’ve mentioned before the atrocious shortcomings of JSON as a format and I feel deeply saddened that the format has taken the world by storm. However, it is here and we must cope… but not always. Like every other...
Site Maintenance Oct 23rd, 2017 10:00 EDT
We will be performing site wide maintenance on Monday, October 23rd, 2017 at 10:00am EDT (14:00 UTC). This maintenance is expected to last 15 minutes. During this window, the UI and API will be unavailable as we fail over to a new primary datacenter. This maintenance...
System Monitoring with the USE Dashboard
The USE method was developed by Brendan Gregg to study performance problems in a systematic way.1 It provides a simple, top-down approach to identify bottlenecks quickly and reliably. The gathering of performance metrics is usually done using a myriad of different...
Monitoring Queue Sizes
At Circonus we are collecting a number of metric about block devices. An interesting one is the average length of the request queue, which is exposed by iostat[1]: aqu-sz The average queue length of the requests that were issued to the device. Note: In previous...
Hosts, Metrics, and Pricing, Oh My!
As the number and types of monitoring vendors have risen over the past several years, so have the pricing models. With the rise of cloud based ephemeral systems, often running alongside statically provisioned infrastructure, understanding the monitoring needs of one’s...
Monitoring as Code
Circonus has always been API-driven, and this has always been one of our product’s core strengths. Via our API, Circonus provides the ability to create anything that you can in the UI and more. With so many of our customers moving to API-driven platforms like AWS,...