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By far the most straightforward way to securely send your metrics is by installing the Hosted Graphite agent. Once installed, it offers the standard Graphite carbon line TCP and UDP interfaces on the `localhost` interface and automatically forwards to Hosted Graphite over HTTPS.
Diamond is a Python daemon for collecting system metrics and presenting them to Graphite. Diamond is good for scale and customization.
Monitoring systems and alerts is crucial to tackling issues as early as possible. Various free tools such as CollectD, Munin, and more.
This article was originally published on May 25, 2016 , by Charlie von Metzradt, co-founder of Hosted Graphite, for the Hosted Graphite blog. Since then, Hosted Graphite has become MetricFire but our goal has stayed the same: Monitoring should be accessible. For more information and for updates on new features, ...
Learn about how percentile data can be the perfect visualizations. Use Metricfire and Grafana to visualize your data.
One of MetricFire's priorities is to make sure we have control over where we collect data. This helps remove issues with metric collisions.
Read Logentries co-founder Trevor Parsons, post on how easy it is to extract and send logs as metrics from Logentries to Hosted Graphite.