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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 […]
