Annotating Alerts and Recoveries

In the last couple of posts, Brian introduced our new WebHook notifications feature and I demonstrated how Circonus can graph text metrics for Visualizing Regressions. Both of these features are…

WebHook Notifications

This week we added support for webhook notifications in Circonus. For those that are unsure what a webhook is, its simply an HTTP POST with all the information about an…

Your Visitors Don’t Matter

Consider me old-fashioned, but I remember a time when an alert notification meant something. Drives failed, servers ran short on memory, or a cage monkey pulled the wrong cable at…

Disrupting the Status Quo

As a hobbyist programmer and full-time operations geek, I’ve been involved in my share of odd software projects. More often than not I’ve had to explain the purpose of the…

Introducing Circonus

Great ideas always begin with a catalyst. They can ignite in a flash of brilliance, or grow slowly like an ember hidden in the ashes of failure. Inspiration comes from…