The Blog. From Circonus
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 SLI/SLOs. At Circonus we care deeply about measuring latency and SRE techniques such as SLI/SLOs. For...
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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 facts and figures from our 2018 Monitoring DevOps Survey. The infographic provides a visual representation of the prevalence of DevOps, how...
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 a multi-part series about Service Level Objectives. The second part can be found here. Whether you're just getting started with DevOps or you're a seasoned pro, goals...
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'...
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...
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...