Case for a Broader, Deeper, Coordinated Approach to Monitoring Your Business

Effective monitoring is essential for running a successful web business. It improves business performance by accelerating response to issues and opportunities that arise from web application operations, helping your company…

Distributed Systems Testing or Why My Hair Is Falling Out

Here at Circonus, our infrastructure is highly distributed. Many of the functions of Circonus are distinct systems that communicate with each other. In addition, we use a distributed data store…

Introducing Leo – A tool to automatically setup & configure NAD!

Leo is an extension to the NAD (Node Agent Daemon) client which will automatically create a check, a set of graphs, and a worksheet for a particular host. Leo’s goal…

Metrics from Custom Apps…Easy!

Many developers are looking for a platform to which they can send arbitrary data from their custom applications to collect and visualize those metrics, as well as alert on specific…

Video: Architecture of a Distributed Analytics/Storage Engine for Massive Time-Series Data

The numerical analysis of time-series data isn’t new. The scale of today’s problems is. With millions of concurrent data streams, some of which run at 1MM samples per second, the…

The Problem with Math: Why Your Monitoring Solution is Wrong

Math is perfect – the most perfect thing in the world. The problem with math is that it is perpetrated by us imperfect humans. Circonus has long aimed to bring…