The Blog. From Circonus
Hosts, Metrics, and Pricing, Oh My!
As the number and types of monitoring vendors have risen over the past several years, so have the pricing models. With the rise of cloud based ephemeral systems, often running alongside statically provisioned infrastructure, understanding the monitoring needs of one’s...
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...
Rapid Resolution With The Right Tools
Here at Circonus, we obviously monitor our infrastructure with the Circonus platform. However, there are many types of monitoring, and our product isn’t intended to cover all the bases. While Circonus leads to profound insights into the behavior of systems, it isn’t a...
LuaJIT and the Illumos VM
I’m about to dive into some esoteric stuff, so be warned. We use LuaJIT extensively throughout most of our product suite here at Circonus. It is core supported technology in the libmtev platform on which we build most of our high-performance server apps. Lua (and...
The Uphill Battle for Visibility
In 2011, Circonus released a feature that revolutionized the way people could observe systems. We throw around the word “histogram” a lot and the industry has listened. And while we’ve made great progress, it seems that somewhere along the way the industry got lost....
Percentages Aren’t People
This is a story about an engineering group celebrating success when it shouldn’t be… and their organization buying into it. This is not the fault of the engineering groups, or the operations team, or any one person. This is the fault of yesterday’s tools not providing...
Understanding API Latencies
Today’s Internet is powered by APIs. Tomorrow’s will be even more so. Without a pretty UI or a captivating experience, you’re judged simply on performance and availability. As an API provider, it is more critical than ever to understand how your system is performing....
Pully McPushface
The Argument for Connectivity Agnosticism It’s about push vs. pull... but it shouldn’t be. There has been a lot of heated debate on whether pushing telemetry data from systems or pulling that data from systems is better. If you’re just hearing about this argument now,...