The Blog. From Circonus
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,...
COSI:Postgres
A few months ago we announced the availability Circonus One Step Install (COSI) to introduce a very fast way to get data collected for systems with the most obvious set of metrics enabled. This makes monitoring new systems as easy as copying and pasting a command into...
No, We “Fixed the Glitch”
If you haven’t seen the movie Office Space, you should do so at your earliest convenience. As with the new TV comedy, “Silicon Valley,” Mike Judge hits far too close to home for the movie to be comfortable… its hilarity, on the other hand, is indisputable. So much of...
The Circonus API and Raspberry PI
Building a Raspberry PI Circonus AlertBot To a Site Reliability Engineer, one of the most important things is making sure that you get alerts as soon as events happen. Circonus provides many contact options, such as SMS, email, Slack, PagerDuty, or VictorOps. For me,...
Crash-Dump Necromancy
Recently, one of our on-premises customers experienced a system crash with one of their metric-storage nodes. Circonus offers the option to operate a complete, private copy of our product on a customer’s own premises. This may be because of a compliance requirement or...
How We Keep Your Data Safe
Some of our users tell us that moving to Circonus from in-house operated tools was driven by the desire to outsource responsibility for availability and data safety to someone else. This might sound odd, but building highly resilient systems is hard, most engineering...
Time, but Faster
Every once in awhile, you find yourself in a rabbit hole, unsure of where you are or what time it might be. In this post, I'll show you a computing adventure about time through the looking glass. The first premise you must understand was summed up perfectly by the...