Monitoring isn’t just a business for us—it’s a passion. One of the things that sets Circonus apart is our strong interest in raising the bar for performance monitoring in general.
Monitoring is two things:
Without monitoring you don't know what your system is doing, which means you can't fix it and you can't improve it. Feedback loops require data. Monitoring systems to collect metrics is systems administration 101. However, systems are more complicated, there are more metrics—and correlation is needed to troubleshoot problems or plan for growth. But unfortunately, as the problem has gotten bigger, existing tools haven't gotten better. Anyone managing hundreds of machines has felt the intense pain of collecting, correlating and making good sense of the information across all of them. Circonus is a large-scale monitoring and trend analysis system designed to nip these problems in the bud.
Collecting simple metrics like CPU, memory and disk utilization are obvious basics. Network switch ports and host interfaces are commonly polled for traffic metrics. Applications expose their own key metrics that can be trended: space, users, connections, requests or transactions processed. A good administrator goes beyond these systemic metrics and starts looking into business-level metrics like registered users, widgets sold, and credit card transaction volumes. The sheer quantity of information is overwhelming and traditional RRDTool-based systems bust at the seams. At Circonus, we’ve seen this break down, and we created a system that eliminates this pain. Circonus is designed from the ground up to perform at scale.
First I want to start by saying I sincerely apologize for anyone adversely effected by yesterday's false alerts. That is something that we are very conscience of when rolling out new changes and clearly something I hope never to repeat.
View Full Post »This feature has been a long time in coming: the ability to annotate your graphs! With the new annotations timeline sitting over the graph, not only can you create custom events to mark points in time, but you can also view alerts and see how they fit (or don't fit) your metric data.
View Full Post »At the beginning of this month, I'd attended the Gartner Data Center Conference in Las Vegas, and wanted to share with you some of my gained impressions and insights from the event.
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The Circonus Management API allows for the programmatic management of Circonus account details, checks and check bundles, metrics, rules and graphs.
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