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Tweets about Monitoring. Software. Mathematics. SRE @ZalandoTech. Ex. @Circonus. Math PhD. he/him
Jan 27, 2020 7 tweets 4 min read
We finally got around writing-up a formal treatment of the Circonus Log-Linear Histogram data-structure! Here is the TL;DR ... 1/x The circllhist is a data-structure that allows to capture and analyze latency distribution. Here is how it looks. It's fully mergable, unbounded, fast (ns insertions), and reasonably small (<10kb) and accurate as well as battle tested for nearly a decade. 2/x
Nov 8, 2019 21 tweets 4 min read
Live right now! What works well in Prometheus Histograms:

- Percentage of requests in the last hour, with response time 100ms or less

- How many HTTP responses were larger 4kb between 2:30 .. 2:45.