What’s new in JLog?

There is a class of problems in systems software that require guaranteed delivery of data from one stage of processing to the next stage of processing. In database systems, this…

Circonus One Step Install

Introducing Quick and Simple Onboarding with C:OSI When we started developing Circonus 6 years ago, we found many customers had very specific ideas about how they want their onboarding process…

Circonus Instrumentation Packs

In our Circonus Labs public github repo, we have started a project called Circonus Instrumentation Packs, or CIP. This is a series of libraries to make it even easier to…

Show Me the Data

Avoid spike erosion with Percentile – and Histogram – Aggregation It has become common wisdom that the lossy process of averaging measurements leads to all kinds of problems when measuring performance…

The Future of Monitoring: Q&A with Jez Humble

Jez Humble is a lecturer at U.C. Berkeley, and co-author of the Jolt Award-winning Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test and Deployment Automation (Addison-Wesley 2011) and Lean Enterprise:…

The Future of Monitoring: Q&A with John Allspaw

John Allspaw is CTO at Etsy. John has worked in systems operations for over 14 years in biotech, government, and online media. He started out tuning parallel clusters running vehicle…