Review on Circonus by Shane Miller

Circonus is an excellent tool for monitoring and analyzing any number of different data streams from various sources. Unfortunately, this is where it stops being a great tool for me. While their pricing model is attractive (you get a discount if you purchase more than 2 months in advance), the actual cost is high and I would estimate $1,000/month to be fairly typical. For my use case, it was simply too expensive and required too much manual intervention to maintain a useful level of coverage. I would recommend that other organizations test Circonus first before purchasing. I tried it for three months and did not see enough value to justify the price tag. I ended up using a combination of Nagios, Graphite, Ganglia, and Logstash. In fact, my primary use of Circonus was to track disk space usage and determine if I should buy another hard drive.