Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Businesses in many industries turn to MetricFire for one goal: to quickly set up hosted monitoring with an expert team. Developers everywhere ask, "Will setting up a monitoring solution with a free trial be worth my time?" How can you find the right monitoring solution for your use case? This article will review some common monitoring use cases for online retail and ecommerce businesses. If any part of this article rings true for your business, click here to contact us.

Many companies that provide IoT or device management solutions need help building an in-house monitoring solution. Managing devices for your clients is challenging enough—building a monitoring system is not everyone's wheelhouse and takes time to set up. In this article, we will review some of the most common use cases for device management companies and discuss how these businesses can use MetricFire to save time and money on their monitoring.

This article explores a few popular CLI tools for managing k8s environments. CLI tools offer efficient, streamlined management and troubleshooting for Kubernetes. In this article, we'll learn how they can help you manage k8s environments.

Monitoring is crucial for schools and nonprofits, and there are dozens of use cases for how nonprofits and schools can implement monitoring. This article will explore them and show you how to start monitoring your organization using MetricFire. We'll also briefly examine EnglishScore, a real customer's use case for monitoring their educational application. We offer up to 40% off your monitoring bill for schools and nonprofits when you switch to MetricFire. Schedule a chat with our team to get a quote!

Having insights into your Kubernetes environment is crucial for ensuring optimal resource allocation and preventing potential performance bottlenecks. It also enables proactive monitoring of application health and security, helping to quickly identify and resolve issues before they impact users.

Monitoring K8s is crucial to ensure that your applications run smoothly. But before you look for a monitoring solution, you need to ask what tools are the best for your situation. There are several options, but Graphite and Prometheus are two leading options. This article will compare the two.

Monitoring Kubernetes performance allows you to manage your applications smoothly. In this article, we will examine Kubernetes metrics every team should monitor and how to send K8s metrics to MetricFire for insights and visualization in Hosted Grafana.

Nagios is an open-source monitoring system used to track the performance and health of IT infrastructure, including servers, network devices, applications, and services. It is widely used because of its ability to provide real-time alerts, identify issues before they become critical, and ensure uptime by detecting and addressing system failures promptly. Monitoring Nagios plugins on a more robust platform allows for better scalability, deeper analytics, and long-term storage of performance data.

In this article, we'll explore another monitoring use case. This particular use case is exciting– it's MetricFire's use case with Kubernetes and Linode! We'll examine how our company uses our platform to monitor our K8s clusters hosted on Linode. Let's get started!

Prometheus and its querying language, PromQL, have several functions that perform various calculations on their data. One of the most widely used functions is rate(); however, it is also one of the most misunderstood.