The Blog. From Circonus
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...
What’s new in JLog?
Introduction There is a class of problems in systems software that require guaranteed delivery of data from one stage of processing to the next stage of processing. In database systems, this usually involves a WAL file and a commit process that moves data from the WAL...
Circonus One Step Install
Introducing Quick and Simple Onboarding with C:OSI When we started developing Circonus 6 years ago, we found many customers had very specific ideas about how they want their onboarding process to work. Since then, we’ve found that many more customers aren’t sure where...
Circonus Instrumentation Packs
In our Circonus Labs public github repo, we have started a project called Circonus Instrumentation Packs, or CIP. This is a series of libraries to make it even easier to submit telemetry data from your application. Currently there are CIP directories for go, java,...
Discovering circonusvi
Folks who know Circonus and use it regularly for operations also know that its API is an important part of efficient management for your monitoring facility. For example, after building out a new datacenter with our SaaS application, we wanted to apply tagging to our...
Graph Hover Lock
A new feature to help make sense of graphs with multiple data points When visualizing your data, you may often want to compare multiple data points on a single graph. You may even want to compare a metric across a dozen machines, but a graph with more then two or...
Advanced Search Builder
Last year, changes on the backend allowed Circonus to make significant improvements to our search capability. Now, we've added an Advanced Search tool to allow users to easily build complex search queries, making Search in Circonus more powerful and flexible than ever...