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Great systems are not just built. They are monitored.
MetricFire is a managed observability platform that helps teams monitor production systems with clean dashboards and actionable alerts. Delivering signal, not noise. Without the operational burden of self-hosting.
Introduction
MetricFire focuses on making hosted monitoring straightforward and useful for teams that want clear insight into their systems. Our Hosted Graphite platform helps you understand what is happening across your applications, infrastructure, and services without adding unnecessary complexity. The goal is simple: give you the visibility you need to run and improve your software with confidence.
We also believe that monitoring should be accessible, which is why our pricing is designed to work for teams of all sizes. In addition to offering dedicated plans directly through our website, Hosted Graphite is available as an add on through marketplaces like Heroku Elements. This makes it easy to start monitoring your Heroku applications with minimal setup. You can learn more about our monitoring add on here.
Hosted Graphite by MetricFire
MetricFire provides a hosted monitoring solution with custom dashboards. This allows you to have complete visibility into your applications and more, understand what is going on, and catch spikes before they become problems for your team. Our star product, Hosted Graphite, is simply a hosted version of Graphite with additional features like hosted Grafana dashboards, alerting, and teams. With Hosted Graphite, we provide the endpoint for your time-series data and host it so you have the security and storage you need to get the results you want.
With our custom dashboard and alerting tools, Hosted Graphite is a complete monitoring solution. We ingests your time-series data, enable you to create customizable dashboards for your metrics, and send alert notifications when metrics are out of range or missing. See the Hosted Graphite documentation HERE for full technical details of the platform.
Our Heroku Add-on
We offer our platform as a Heroku add-on so you can have complete visibility of your Heroku applications. With Hosted Graphite for Heroku, you can observe your app’s uptime, users, activity, and more. This can help you prevent problems before they occur and plan for how you can improve your app’s performance. Click here to see our Heroku add-on and learn more about what the addon can do for your Heroku instance.
Provision in the Heroku UI or CLI
You can provision the Hosted Graphite add-on from within your Heroku account:
Alternatively, you can do this from within your Heroku CLI:
heroku addons:create hostedgraphite -a <app-name>
Automatically Generated Dashboards
Every Hosted Graphite account comes with Hosted Grafana, as well as automatically generated dashboards to display the performance of your Heroku app:
We also collect metrics from your Heroku Postgres, Redis, and Kafka add-ons, and provide automatically generated dashboards for these too:
Our Pricing
We want our product to save our customers time and money. Hosted Graphite enables you to monitor your application without hiring an internal developer to manage it. With our 1-click monitoring solution, you can easily gain visibility into your app by choosing Hosted Graphite by MetricFire today!
Below are our Heroku pricing options. We know that many of our Heroku users have small use cases and are price-sensitive, so we offer low-tier options that are more affordable. Many Heroku apps are able to fit into our 500 Metrics plan at only $19/mo.
We offer our Heroku add-on for all our customers starting at $19/month. Signing up is easy and you can learn more about our Heroku add-on pricing at our add-on page here.
Conclusion
In this article, we looked at what Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is and how it can be used to monitor your Heroku applications. With the Heroku add-on, you get clear visibility into how your app is behaving without having to set up or manage your own monitoring infrastructure. Metrics, dashboards, and alerts all work together to help you understand performance over time, spot problems early, and keep things running smoothly as your app grows.
We also covered how MetricFire adjusted its pricing to better fit Heroku use cases. The goal is to make powerful monitoring available at a price that makes sense, whether you are running a small app or something more demanding. Choosing between a dedicated plan and the Heroku add-on gives you flexibility while still saving time and money compared to managing monitoring on your own.
If you want a straightforward way to get full visibility into your Heroku app without overcomplicating things, Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is worth a look. You can sign up for a free trial at metricfire.com and see if it fits your workflow.