The Circonus Blog
Underneath Clean Data: Avoiding Rot
When many people talk about clean data, they are referring to data that was collected in a controlled and rigorous
Read more.Our Monitoring Tools are Lying to Us
I posted the article below to LinkedIn a few weeks back. Since it was relatively popular and relevant to the Circonus
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One-Minute-Resolution Data Storage is Here!
Have you noticed your graphs looking better? Zoom in. Notice more detail? That’s what our switch from 5 to 1-minute-resolution data
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Video: Math in Big Systems
Every year the esteemed Usenix organization holds their LISA conference. LISA has transformed slowly over the years as systems, architectures, and
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Alerting on disk space the right way.
Most people that alert on disk space use an arbitrary threshold, such as “notify me when my disk is 85%
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A New Day for Navigation and Search
Today we finally rolled out the new navigation menu and search bar that we’ve been working on for a while.
Read more.Blueprints – Graphing made easy
Introducing Blueprints Today I’d like to introduce a new Circonus feature we’re calling Blueprints. Blueprints is a way to effortlessly
Read more.AWS Cloudwatch Support
This month we pushed native Cloudwatch support – any metric that you have in Cloudwatch can now be added to
Read more.JSON Over HTTP – Data Collection Made Simple
At Circonus, one of our goals is to try to make it as easy as possible to monitor your data.
Read more.Exploring Keynote XML Data Pulse
I’ll be the first to admit that the Circonus service can be somewhat intimidating. Sometimes it is hard to puzzle
Read more.Monitoring Elasticsearch
With the much anticipated announcement of the Elasticsearch 1.0.0 release, we thought we’d mention that several of the features that
Read more.Ways to Collect Systems Data in Circonus
When you decide to monitor your systems with Circonus, there’s quite a few options on how to collect your metrics.
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Tags: A Long Time Coming
Ok, we know a lot of you have been asking for tags in Circonus for a long time. Well, they’re
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Customizable Alerts and Ruleset Groups
Today we are releasing two new features to make your on-call life easier. Customizable Alerts Our default format was created
Read more.Understanding service latencies via TCP analysis
Latency is the root of all that is evil on the Internet… or so the saying goes. CPUs get faster,
Read more.Manage Metrics with circonus-cmi
As an environment grows, so does the headache of managing checks and metrics. Every new machine and cluster node requires
Read more.On the Move: Circonus Mobile
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here: a Circonus that’s optimized for low-resolution devices like your smartphone
Read more.What’s New Q1 2013 Edition
Navigation and URL Changes I’ll start this update talking about the most obvious changes to the UI, which is our
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Web Application Stat Collection with Node.js and Circonus
Collecting and carefully monitoring statistics is an essential practice for catching and debugging issues early, as well as minimizing degraded
Read more.Interacting with Circonus through your text editor – circonusvi
I’m a big fan of command line tools for many tasks. There are just some tasks that can be done
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