MetricFire

Dublin, Ireland
2012
  |  By Elliot Langston
As businesses migrate to the cloud, monitoring these environments becomes critically important. Digital Ocean is a popular developer choice due to its simplicity and scalability. However, effectively monitoring resources and applications within Digital Ocean can pose unique challenges. Hosted Graphite and Telegraf provide robust solutions for these challenges, allowing users to visualize data, track system metrics in real-time, and troubleshoot issues quickly.
  |  By MetricFire Blogger
MetricFire is a full-scale platform offering infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using open-source monitoring tools. The platform allows you to use Graphite-as-a-Service and display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing Grafana dashboards. Because of its powerful monitoring capabilities, MetricFire allows you to understand complex systems at a glance. This article will highlight everything you need to know to understand and use MetricFire for your business.
  |  By MetricFire Blogger
Graphite and Splunk are data monitoring and visualization services with different pricing models. Graphite is open-source and free, while Splunk is a paid service with pricing starting at $225/month for Splunk Enterprise. Hosted Graphite is available at a starting price of $99/month. Choose based on specific needs and budget.
  |  By Benjamin Pitts
Converting multiple data formats into one unified format makes software and DevOps monitoring so much easier, as it brings together all types of metrics for a smoother, more consistent analysis. This approach cuts down on the need for separate parsing setups, saving time and reducing complexity when it comes to managing configurations. It’s also a big help for scaling up—your monitoring tools can handle growing volumes of data without constant adjustments.
  |  By Nick Campion
Network monitoring is critical to ensuring a business stays secure. Switches are crucial to the proper functioning of that network. Hence, continue reading about the ten best Cisco switch monitoring tools. Switches connect networks and serve as controllers that let organizations share resources and talk to each other for better productivity. Without them, organizations face crippled information sharing and resource allocation, not to mention unnecessary costs.
  |  By Benjamin Pitts
Monitoring with Graphite is often easier than with Prometheus because it uses a simple, hierarchical naming system that's intuitive to manage. Its storage model is also designed for long-term data retention without complex setups, which is perfect when historical data matters. By converting Prometheus metrics to Graphite, you streamline your monitoring to one consistent format, reducing the hassle of juggling multiple systems.
  |  By MetricFire Blogger
Monitoring provides real-time insights into containerized applications' performance, resource utilization, and overall health. It allows organizations to identify bottlenecks, track resource allocation, detect anomalies, and ensure optimal performance of their containerized infrastructure. Let's explore the world of container monitoring software and discover the leading options that empower you with the necessary tools to monitor and optimize your containers effectively in 2025.
  |  By Benjamin Pitts
Traefik is a modern reverse proxy and load balancer designed to handle dynamic, microservices-based environments with ease. It's popular for its simple configuration, native integration with cloud platforms, and ability to automatically discover services in real time. Monitoring Traefik is essential to ensure efficient traffic management, gain insights into service performance, and quickly detect issues, making it a vital component in maintaining reliable, high-performance applications.
  |  By Lindsey Rogerson
Businesses rely on accurate network monitoring data because the network is the backbone of IT infrastructure. Lacking internal or external communication about your network can be disastrous, especially if you provide digital goods or services. Network monitoring tools shouldn't be a "nice to have" that may or may not make this year's department budget. They are essential to monitoring performance, spotting anomalies, and identifying potential security issues.
  |  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 2025. We'll discuss the benefits and setup process of the Hosted Graphite add-on. We'll also discuss future trends in Heroku monitoring.
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  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.
  |  By MetricFire
Learn more about the functionalities of MetricFire's Hosted Graphite service. Including dashboards, alerting, add-ons, team features and more. MetricFire has everything you could need for a complete monitoring solution.
  |  By MetricFire
MetricFire provides powerful monitoring at any scale. Measure, analyze and visualize large amounts of data about your applications and back-end systems without any of the hassles of setting up your own server, or worrying about scaling, backups or maintenance.
  |  By MetricFire
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Monitoring with Prometheus Understanding and Using Prometheus (With real examples)

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.
  • View your monitoring data on beautiful Grafana dashboards – in real time. Get a deeper understanding of your data on a slick, feature-rich graph and dashboard editor.

Hosted Graphite and Prometheus with Grafana Dashboards.