The Blog. From Circonus
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...
Our Values
Values Create Value In the tech industry, you read more blog posts on product features than you do on core values. At Circonus, we see them as inextricably linked – values create value – which is exactly what positions us to deliver results for our customers. Values...
COSI:Postgres
A few months ago we announced the availability Circonus One Step Install (COSI) to introduce a very fast way to get data collected for systems with the most obvious set of metrics enabled. This makes monitoring new systems as easy as copying and pasting a command into...
No, We “Fixed the Glitch”
If you haven’t seen the movie Office Space, you should do so at your earliest convenience. As with the new TV comedy, “Silicon Valley,” Mike Judge hits far too close to home for the movie to be comfortable… its hilarity, on the other hand, is indisputable. So much of...
The Circonus API and Raspberry PI
Building a Raspberry PI Circonus AlertBot To a Site Reliability Engineer, one of the most important things is making sure that you get alerts as soon as events happen. Circonus provides many contact options, such as SMS, email, Slack, PagerDuty, or VictorOps. For me,...
Crash-Dump Necromancy
Recently, one of our on-premises customers experienced a system crash with one of their metric-storage nodes. Circonus offers the option to operate a complete, private copy of our product on a customer’s own premises. This may be because of a compliance requirement or...
How We Keep Your Data Safe
Some of our users tell us that moving to Circonus from in-house operated tools was driven by the desire to outsource responsibility for availability and data safety to someone else. This might sound odd, but building highly resilient systems is hard, most engineering...
Time, but Faster
Every once in awhile, you find yourself in a rabbit hole, unsure of where you are or what time it might be. In this post, I'll show you a computing adventure about time through the looking glass. The first premise you must understand was summed up perfectly by the...