In this article, we will describe and compare Prometheus and InfluxDB, so that readers can choose which one best suits their needs.
MetricFire offers a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring made of 3 services: Prometheus, Graphite, and Grafana.
A lot of organizations are using Grafana to visualize information and get notified about events happening within their infrastructure or data. In this article, we will show how to create and configure Grafana Alerts rules.
Compare Grafana and InfluxDB. Grafana is a monitoring platform. InfluxDB is a time-series database, which has a tool called Chronograf.
Hosted Graphite announced its expansion with a new service: MetricFire, it adds Hosted Prometheus to the platform offered by Hosted Graphite
Prometheus can be used to monitor Python apps. Check out how we use Prometheus to monitor Python apps at MetricFire.
Step by step tutorial on how to set up Prometheus and Grafana in MetricFire. See the final Grafana dashboard for monitoring CPU usage.
Follow this step by step tutorial to set up the Hosted Graphite agent and start piping metrics into MetricFire.