Category Archives: Industry
What’s Tops in DevOps?
The most innovative DevOps trends of 2018, and what to look out for in 2019 Seems like you can’t talk […]
The Problem with Percentiles – Aggregation brings Aggravation
Percentiles have become one of the primary service level indicators to represent real systems monitoring performance. When used correctly, they […]
Monitoring DevOps: Where are we now? [Infographic]
Our first DevOps & Monitoring Survey was conducted at ChefConf 2015. This year, we’ve created an infographic based on the […]
SREcon 2018 Americas
Getting paged at 11pm on New Year’s Eve because the application code used sprintf %d on a 32 bit system […]
Some Like It Flat
JSON rules the world, much to our collective chagrin. I’ve mentioned before the atrocious shortcomings of JSON as a format […]
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. […]
Systems Monitoring is Ripe for a Revolution
Before we explore systems, let’s talk users. After all, most of our businesses wouldn’t exist without lots of users; users […]
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]