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By MetricFire Team
Setting up alert thresholds in Graphite transforms raw monitoring data into actionable notifications, helping you address system issues before they escalate. Here's what you need to know.
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By MetricFire Team
Creating a custom dashboard is the best way to monitor metrics that matter most to your systems. Tools like MetricFire make this process straightforward by combining hosted Grafana and Graphite, eliminating the need for self-hosted solutions. Here's how you can build dashboards tailored to your needs.
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By MetricFire Team
Modern DevOps faces tough monitoring challenges due to distributed systems, containers, and microservices. Key issues include fragmented visibility, alert fatigue, tool overload, pipeline blindspots, and cloud cost inefficiencies.
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By MetricFire Team
Cloud monitoring is essential for tracking performance, security, and costs in dynamic environments. With 94% of enterprises using cloud services and 81% adopting multi-cloud setups, maintaining control is critical. Here's what you need to know.
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By Benjamin Pitts
Traditional alerts are simple by design: if a metric crosses a threshold, fire an alert. While that simplicity makes alerts easy to configure, it also leads to alert noise, because single metrics rarely tell the full story and often trigger during non-actionable conditions. Hosted Graphite Composite Alerts solve this by allowing you to combine multiple alert conditions using logical expressions like AND (&&) and OR (||).
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By Benjamin Pitts
VictoriaMetrics is a fast, cost-efficient, and highly scalable time-series database designed as a drop-in replacement for Prometheus storage. It is widely used for collecting, storing, and querying metrics at scale, while remaining lightweight enough to run as a single binary or container. Because it is fully Prometheus-compatible, VictoriaMetrics supports standard PromQL queries and integrates seamlessly with Grafana.
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By MetricFire Blogger
Monitoring performance of Heroku applications helps improve user experience. This blog post covers Heroku monitoring add-ons and explores why Hosted Graphite is the best choice in 2026. We'll discuss the benefits and setup process of the Hosted Graphite add-on. We'll also discuss future trends in Heroku monitoring.
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By Benjamin Pitts
Redis is a widely used in-memory data store, commonly deployed as a cache, session store, message broker, or fast key-value database. Because Redis often sits on the critical path of an application, having visibility into its behavior (memory usage, client connections, command throughput, cache efficiency) is essential for troubleshooting and performance tuning.
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By Benjamin Pitts
Heroku makes it easy to deploy and operate applications without managing servers, but understanding how your application behaves internally still requires instrumentation. Platform metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, and router request/status counts are useful, but they don’t tell you how long your code takes to run, when your app throws errors, or whether users are interacting with key features.
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By Benjamin Pitts
In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.
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By MetricFire
Want full visibility into your systems? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use Grafana Loki with Promtail on Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to stream logs alongside your metrics. All visualized in Grafana dashboards. No more toggling between tools — get the full observability stack in one place.
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By MetricFire
Librato on Heroku is being sunsetted, so what's next? In this tutorial, we walk through: Why Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is the best upgrade from Librato on Heroku Step-by-step migration: move your Heroku dyno, router, Postgres, Redis & custom metrics into Hosted Graphite A side-by-side comparison: metrics ingestion, dashboards, alerts, and integrations.
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By MetricFire
In this quick demo, we show how you can transform logs collected by Grafana Loki into actionable Graphite metrics using MetricFire. Watch as we convert structured logs into performance insights. Perfect for teams looking to bridge the gap between logging and monitoring. This workflow helps you move beyond basic log storage and turn raw logs into meaningful metrics for alerts, dashboards, and capacity planning.
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By MetricFire
Take a first look at MetricFire’s brand-new logging tool — designed to simplify log ingestion, storage, and visualization using open-source components like Loki, Python, Telegraf and Grok. Collect logs, search across services, and correlate them with your metrics — all inside your existing Hosted Graphite environment. Whether you're an SRE, DevOps engineer, or running logs on a budget, this sneak peek reveals how MetricFire is evolving toward full observability.
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By MetricFire
Learn how to efficiently use MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite CLI to manage your monitoring setup like a pro! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through: Installing and setting up the CLI Sending and querying metrics with ease Managing dashboards and alerts from the command line Pro tips for automation and efficiency Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer looking to streamline your monitoring workflow, this video will help you get started quickly.
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By MetricFire
We'll walk through: Simple installation & setup Sending and querying metrics in seconds Seamless integration with your monitoring stack Ready to try it out? Install the Hosted Graphite CLI now: Give it a spin and let us know what you think in the comments!
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By MetricFire
Looking for a powerful way to send and visualise metrics from the command line? Meet HG CLI, MetricFire’s official command-line tool! In this video, we’ll show you how to install, configure, and use HG CLI to manage your Hosted Graphite metrics and create dashboards, all without having to configure an agent yourself. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer, this tool will streamline your monitoring workflows! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more MetricFire insights!
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By MetricFire
This tutorial will show you the steps to successfully send your metrics using our HostedGraphite. We talk about all types of protocols supported, manipulating the metrics sent in graphs, types of metrics, and much more.
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By MetricFire
Learn how to install and use MetricFire Telegraf in this tutorial. Telegraf is a collector agent for metrics and events from systems. Telegraf allows you to collect metrics from multiple systems and visualize the data in various ways. This Telegraf tutorial will walk you through the installation process and show you how to use the tool to collect metrics and events from systems. This is a great way to monitor your systems and track the performance of your applications in real time.
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By MetricFire
In this video, we explore MetricFire’s powerful dashboarding platform. Discover how to customize your dashboard to view the metrics that matter most to your business. With a variety of visualization options and an intuitive interface, creating and editing charts, tables, and graphs has never been easier. Share your dashboard with your team and keep everyone on the same page. Join MetricFire and start tracking your business metrics today.
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MetricFire provides a complete infrastructure and application monitoring platform from a suite of open source monitoring tools. Depending on your setup, choose Hosted Prometheus or Graphite and view your metrics on beautiful Grafana dashboards in real-time.
Understand your data at a glance with our simple, flexible, and affordable monitoring platform:
- Graphite. Supercharged. We took the good parts of open-source Graphite and added everything it's missing: a built in agent, team accounts, granular dashboard permissions, and integrations to other technologies and services like AWS, Heroku, logging tools and more.
- Powerful, scalable, Prometheus monitoring. We offer Prometheus as-a-service, with all the capabilities missing from vanilla Prometheus – Grafana dashboards, long-term storage, and deeply technical support when you need it.
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