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Anomaly Detection Using OSquery and Grafana

Detecting unauthorized usage and malicious applications in an instance involves analyzing OS and application logs. Doing this manually is a herculean effort because of the number of logs and the patterns one has to look for. Having a tool that can provide an aggregated view of your instance and the ability to analyze them easily can greatly reduce manual effort.

How Much Should Your Observability Stack Cost?

Observability is critical to any software development. It is a term that describes the ability to monitor the performance and health of applications, services, and infrastructure. Observability aims to quickly identify and troubleshoot problems before they become full-blown incidents that can lead to costly downtime. But how much should you invest in an observability stack? Regarding the cost of your observability stack, there is no one-size-fits-all answer.

Infrastructure Monitoring with Graphite

Monitoring infrastructure is an essential process for any organization. It is crucial to have visibility into the operations of your systems to detect and resolve any issues that may arise. It ensures the performance, accessibility, and security of your systems and applications. Fortunately, various tools, notably the open-source monitoring system Graphite, can assist with this.

AI Monitoring with MetricFire

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a buzzword in recent years. From chatbots to self-driving cars, AI has transformed how we live, work, and interact with the world around us. AI technology has been deployed across various sectors, including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and more, to improve efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making capabilities. However, as AI systems become more complex, monitoring them to ensure optimal performance and prevent issues or errors becomes crucial.

Our Heroku Pricing

MetricFire is committed to providing our clients with a hosted monitoring solution that empowers teams to have complete observability of their instances, devices, applications, infrastructure, and more. We believe that monitoring should be accessible, so we’ve priced our platform so that teams of all sizes can afford to monitor their data. We offer competitive pricing for dedicated plans on our website, but we also provide our main product, Hosted Graphite, on marketplaces like Heroku Elements.

How To Monitor Server Performance with MetricFire

Servers are a critical component of modern IT infrastructure, and they play a key role in delivering the services and applications that power our digital world. Efficient servers can handle higher workloads and respond to requests more quickly, resulting in faster application response times and improved customer satisfaction. By optimizing server efficiency, businesses can ensure that their servers are operating at their maximum potential, with all resources being utilized to their fullest capacity.

Best Practices for Our Custom Dashboards

Custom dashboards are essential tools in the data-driven world for businesses, organizations, and individuals. They provide an interactive and comprehensive representation of data, making it easier to identify trends, patterns, and outliers. Custom dashboards are highly customizable, allowing users to select the most relevant data sources, visualizations, and metrics to meet their specific needs.

Agent vs. Agentless Monitoring

Network monitoring is a critical aspect of managing and maintaining the performance and security of a network. It includes monitoring and analyzing network traffic, devices, and systems to identify potential issues and ensure that the network operates efficiently and effectively. Network monitoring can help organizations identify and prevent security breaches, identify and troubleshoot performance issues, and ensure compliance with industry regulations and standards.

Hosted StatsD vs. StatsD

When you are designing and building applications, you should consider how to monitor them once they become live. You do not want to be blindsided by errors and degrading performances as you operate them. When your applications fail to provide optimal performance, it can broadly impact your business. Engineers will often be distracted to investigate and fix the issues. Customers will complain. It can eventually hit your bottom line.

MetricFire in 2023

As we welcome a new year, many people set goals, refresh their schedules, and look forward to making the most of 2023. At Metricfire, we think it’s important to reflect on the past and plan for the future. So we’re looking forward to creating goals for our company while sticking to our core values. In this article, we’ll briefly cover some of our company goals for 2023, specifically for our culture, our roadmap, and our growth as a company.