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To integrate Amazon Route 53 and collectd with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Amazon Route 53 and collectd and how that can support your monitoring system.
Amazon Route 53 is a cloud-based domain name system (DNS) web service that you can use to connect user requests to applications running in AWS, such as Amazon S3 buckets and Amazon EC2. Route 53 is highly scalable with high availability and can also be used to route users to infrastructures outside of AWS, such as a web server or a data aggregator like Splunk. It provides businesses and developers a cost-effective and reliable tool to route end users to internet applications by translating domain names into numeric IP addresses.
Route 53 comes with a simple set of APIs that you can use to create and manage DNS records for your domains. Route 53 organizes your DNS records into "hosted zones" that you configure with Route 53's API.
With Amazon Route 53 Traffic, you can manage traffic globally using various routing types, including Geo DNS, Geoproximity, Latency Based Routing and Weighted Round Robin. You can combine these routing types with DNS Failover to enable low-latency, fault-tolerant architectures. Using Amazon Route 53 Traffic Flow's simple visual editor, you can easily manage how you route your end-users to your application's endpoints.
You can use Amazon Route 53 to configure DNS health checks to route traffic to healthy endpoints or independently monitor your application's health and its endpoints. Monitoring DNS health checks is where MetricFire can help you manage your DNS routing using Amazon Route 53.
By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the Metricfire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when your DNS routing is doing something it shouldn't.
Collectd is system statistics collection daemon that periodically retrieves system and application performance metrics and then stores them using various storage solutions such as RRD files. Collectd is a free open-source project. It can gather metrics from multiple sources, including operating systems, applications, log files, and external devices. You can use the statistics compiled by collectd to monitor systems, detect performance bottlenecks, and predict future system loads.
Because it's written in C, collectd is built for performance and portability, allowing you to run it on systems with no scripting language or an embedded system. It comes with optimizations and features to handle hundreds of thousands of metrics. Collectd also lets you configure what metrics you want to capture and what frequency you want to capture them, allowing you to scale back your metrics collection collect only the metrics that make sense for your business needs. Its modular architecture allows the daemon to use only the resources required to do the job.
Collectd only performs the collection and transmission of the metrics. It does not analyze or present the metrics on its own. But by integrating collectd with the Metricfire platform, you can enjoy metrics displayed on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. Our integration lets you view metrics on essential systems and application log messages on your Hosted Graphite graphs and dashboards.
You can download a collectd configuration file pre-filled with your Hosted Graphite account details on our add-ons page. This configuration comes with several collectd plugins enabled, including CPU, DF (file system usage), disk, entropy, interface, load, memory, processes, rrdtool, swap, users and write_graphite.
To integrate Amazon Route 53 and collectd with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Amazon Route 53 and collectd and get Amazon Route 53 and collectd interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.
MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. We enable you to use Hosted Graphite and aesthetic custom dashboards to visualize your metrics so you can understand what is happening.
MetricFire offers users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of popular open-source monitoring software services: Graphite and popular dashboards. Plugins for many other open-source projects are preconfigured, such as StatsD, collectd, and Kubernetes. You get all these within a hosted environment as a single product. Not only does MetricFire fit well into the infrastructure monitoring use-case, such as network monitoring and server monitoring, but we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.
Through this hosted environment, MetricFire boosts the unique features of open-source projects to give you more functionality than the original products. Below are some of the MetricFire features at a glance:
The key thing to remember is that Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is more than just Graphite. Our Hosted Graphite product actually adds data dimensionality and better data storage.
The benefits of MetricFire are:
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