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Grafana heatmaps with IRONdb have landed
GrafanaCon EU 2018 Recap A couple weeks ago at GrafanaCon EU 2018 we announced the beta release of the IRONdb Data Source for Grafana. We've continued to make improvements to some features, such as the heatmap visualization of histogram data. In this blog post, we'll...
Announcing the beta release of the IRONdb Grafana Data Source
Our team is at GrafanaCon 2018 in Amsterdam this week, and we are pleased to share the news of the beta release of our IRONdb Grafana Data Source. IRONdb has been in production at some of the largest technology companies in the world for nearly a year now. The release...
Circonus On The Raspberry Pi
There are a lot of interesting monitoring tasks, that can facilitated with a Raspberry Pi (e.g. here, there). Circonus does not officially support "Raspbian Linux on armv6/v7" as a deployment target, but given the steady interest in this topic, we took the time to...
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,...
Postmortem: 2017-04-11 Firewall Outage
The Event At approximately 05:40AM GMT on 4/11/2017, we experienced a network outage in our main datacenter in Chicago, IL. The outage lasted until approximately 10:55AM GMT on the same day. The Circonus SaaS service, as well as any PUSH based checks that use the...
Documenting with Types
I've said this before: elegant code is pedagogical. That is, elegant code is designed to teach its readers about the concepts and relationships in the problem domain that the code addresses, with as little noise as possible. I think data types are a fundamental tool...
Post-Mortem 2017.1.12.1
TL;DR: Some users received spurious false alerts for approximately 30 minutes, starting at 2017-01-12 22:10 UTC. It is our assessment that no expected alerts were missed. There was no data loss. Overview Due to a software bug in the ingestion pipeline specific to...
Introducing IRONdb
Software is eating the world. Devices that run that software are ubiquitous and multiplying rapidly. Without adequate monitoring on these services, operators are mostly flying blind, either relying on customers to report issues or manually jumping on boxes and spot...
Systems Monitoring is Ripe for a Revolution
Before we explore systems, let’s talk users. After all, most of our businesses wouldn’t exist without lots of users; users that have decreasing brand loyalty and who value unintrusive, convenient, and quick experiences. We’ve intuited that if a user has a better...