Data Council Blog

Life comes at you fast. Data even more so ...

When the engineering team at Circonus began to feel the pain of systems at scale, there were some common observability tools that provided them with a firehose of operational time series telemetry. However, managing all that data, yet alone making sense of it, was extremely difficult. And the existing tools they tried for managing time series metrics either didn't give mathematical insight, or fell over at modest workloads. They needed a better solution. So they decided to look into other statistical tooling options that had proven themselves for decades in other industries.