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March 2021

Q&A: Circonus Founder and CTO Reveals Key Decisions on Designing Circonus' Powerful Time-Series Database

Circonus’ time-series database, IRONdb, can ingest, compute, and analyze time-series data at greater volume and frequency than any other solution in the market. We realize that’s a bold statement, but we stand by it. In fact, IRONdb can ingest over a trillion measurements per second, giving companies the data granularity they need for better, more accurate monitoring. It also offers unlimited scalability and the highest data safety guarantees.

Circonus Welcomes New Dashboard Builder and Service Dashboards

Over the past few months, we’ve been working on some major updates to Circonus — a new dashboard builder and interface along with several turnkey service dashboards. In the following post, we’ll share the motivation and process behind this project, then walk you through what you can expect. Circonus has provided the ability to create custom drag and drop dashboards for some time. However, this feature was added several years ago.

Circonus' Linux Host Monitoring Speeds and Optimizes Performance Management

Circonus’ new Linux host monitoring dashboard is the most comprehensive host monitoring available in the market – yet also extremely easy to install and use, allowing users to more efficiently and accurately monitor their Linux hosts and diagnose and resolve issues. The turnkey dashboard uses our new Circonus Unified Agent (CUA) – a single collection agent that consolidates all host and services monitoring.

Ecommerce Sales are Skyrocketing - 3 Steps Retailers can Take to Make Sure Their Online Shopping Sites are Performing

One year ago this month, I wrote a post about how the COVID-19 pandemic was going to greatly accelerate the pace of global, digital transformation. How literally overnight we were being forced to find new ways of working, meeting, shopping, managing healthcare, and even staying entertained. And how there would be a tremendous surge in demand for video conferencing, home delivery services, online learning, eCommerce, media streaming, eSports, and telemedicine.

Histograms, Patents, Open Source, and the Industry

Histograms (specifically the persistence of detailed information about the distributions of sampled data) have become increasingly important in the monitoring and observability industry. They are powerful tools that afford robust analysis while maintaining excellent economic value. However, there are a few challenges that are awkwardly technical in nature, but almost all of these challenges come down to compatibility of representations.