• Understanding Data with Histograms

    For the last several years, I’ve been speaking about the lies that graphs tell us. We all spend time looking at data, commonly through line graphs, that actually show us averages. A great example of […]

  • What’s in a number?

    Numbers, numbers, numbers; we’re all about numbers here at Circonus. We have trillions of data points which we feed into a slew of algorithms and processes to help our users identify problems with their data. […]

  • A Lotta Love for Keyboard Users

    All web users who bemoan the general lack of support for keyboard accessibility in web apps, take heart! Circonus has some great features for keyboard lovers. We know there are many web users out there […]

  • Past Performance: does this look right to you?

    If you are like me, you look at a lot of data. I look at data in spreadsheets, I look at data on P&L statements, I look at term sheets, I look at systems data […]

  • Capacity Planning Made Easy

    Okay, so capacity planning will never be fool proof. You simply cannot predict the future. However, some of the time you have a darn good idea of what the future will hold. Since someone knows […]

  • Annotating Alerts and Recoveries

    In the last couple of posts, Brian introduced our new WebHook notifications feature and I demonstrated how Circonus can graph text metrics for Visualizing Regressions. Both of these features are interesting enough on their own, […]