The exponential growth of machine generated data in recent years has created the need for solutions purpose-built to handle extremely high-frequency telemetry data. This has driven increasingly more organizations to adopt time series databases and address the unique challenges around ingesting, analyzing, and storing massive amounts of time-series data.

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.

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’ 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.

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 (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.

We’re excited to share today that we’ve partnered with Cloudbakers, a Google Cloud Premium Partner, in an exclusive partnership in which Cloudbakers will serve as the Google Cloud Platform reseller for Circonus, and Circonus will serve as the exclusive provider of GCP monitoring and analytics to Cloudbakers’ customers.

At Circonus, we love hearing (and sharing) how our customers are using our platform to tackle their monitoring challenges. It’s not because we want to congratulate ourselves. Rather, it reminds us that we have to continue listening to the pains that organizations — customers and non-customers alike — are having, so we can continue to enhance our platform with the capabilities they need. This is the approach we have taken since we built Circonus.

If you’re spending more than you expected on your Kubernetes deployment, you’re not alone. Many Kubernetes operators are experiencing higher Kubernetes costs than what they had predicted. That’s because, like many aspects of Kubernetes, identifying how to manage or lower costs can be challenging. In this article, we provide 5 essential tips for how you can achieve a more cost-efficient Kubernetes deployment.

The time has arrived to upgrade to TLS 1.2, if you have not already done so for any of your systems. At Circonus, we will be dropping support across our platform for all connections using TLS versions less than 1.2 on January 21, 2021. Virtually none of our customers will be impacted by this change, as this has been in the works for a very long time, and most customers will have made this transition already.