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To integrate AWS and HipChat with your monitoring system, reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating AWS and HipChat and how that can support your monitoring system.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a platform that provides a multitude of services. In fact, AWS provides more than 175 different services such as computing, storage, networking, database, analytics, application services, deployment, management, mobile, developer tools, and tools for the Internet of Things.
You can build, host, run, and monitor your software entirely within AWS. AWS eliminates the need for developers and businesses to have their own servers, databases, or networks.
AWS is the world’s biggest and most widely adopted cloud platform. It has completely changed how web applications are built, and the nature of DevOps and SRE work.
There are many options for doing performance monitoring for applications built in AWS. AWS provides a monitoring tool called CloudWatch that automatically pulls in metrics from all areas of your application. However, using CloudWatch for everything can become very expensive.
If you’re monitoring a small application, CloudWatch will be suitable for your monitoring needs. However, if you’re monitoring a massive application with lots of custom metrics, the cost of monitoring with CloudWatch quickly escalates to beyond reasonable.
Monitoring your AWS with MetricFire is a great option for reducing the cost of your monitoring and for getting better functionality. MetricFire can pull your metrics directly from AWS and put them into a custom AWS monitoring dashboard. MetricFire can alert on these metrics, and can send notifications directly to your phone, email, or slack.
HipChat was an on-premises instant messaging tool once offered by Atlassian, but now discontinued. Slack has since replaced it.
Like Slack, HipChat enabled teams to work together by making it easier to share ideas, updates, code, and files in real-time. You could integrate HipChat with many tools and applications, including Atlassian tools, such as Confluence or Jira, letting your users receive notifications from those tools in HipChat rooms.
For those legacy users who might still use Hipchat, there is a wide range of MetricFire's Hosted Graphite features that still work with Hipchat.
Hosted Graphite's HipChat integration lets you manage your alerts directly from your HipChat channel. Your team can see unusual patterns as they happen and keep the rest of your team informed. You can view your active and healthy Hosted Graphite alerts in HipChat, and jump directly to a Hosted Graphite dashboard straight from HipChat.
When an alert is triggered, we post a notification to your HipChat room. All Hosted Graphite alerts include a thumbnail of a graph, a link to the full-size graph, the metric name related to the alert, and the conditions that caused it to fire. This card view lets us pack lots of information into a small space, making the notification as useful as possible.
Additionally, you can:
Plus, if you click the "glance" inside HipChat, the sidebar changes to a filterable list of all your alerts, showing which ones are unhealthy and what the alert conditions are.
To integrate AWS and HipChat with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate AWS and HipChat and get AWS and HipChat interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.
MetricFire is a full-scale platform that offers infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. The platform allows you to use either Prometheus- or Graphite-as-a-Service and have your metrics displayed on aesthetically-pleasing Grafana dashboards.
MetricFire offers its users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, which is made up of three of the most popular open-source monitoring software services: Prometheus, Graphite, and Grafana. As well, plugins for a number of 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, we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.
Through this hosted environment, MetricFire works to boost the unique features of the open source projects to give you more functionality than the original products. Below are some of the MetricFire features at a glance:
Cloud and on Premise Monitoring
Hosted Prometheus
Hosted Graphite
Grafana Dashboards
Whether to use Prometheus or Graphite is a great question. We’ve looked deeper into this decision in our blog article, Prometheus or Graphite. While Prometheus is a newer software that has a multidimensional data structure, Graphite is robust and sufficient. 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:
No vendor lock-ins
MetricFire allows you to request for a full export at any time, because you will always own the data you input. You get all the benefits of an open-source tool with the stability and security of a SaaS tool.
Easy Budgeting
A structured pricing model allows you to save time and work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allows you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future.
Transparency
MetricFire works transparently on all aspects of their operations of SaaS system monitoring. You can see their own internal system metrics at their public status page.
Robust Support
Technical support is provided by engineers for engineers, so you can expect detailed and relevant answers to your queries.
“We now have over ten times the amount of metrics we started with, and on different accounts. One of the great things about MetricFire is that scaling to support this increase has been hassle-free, requiring no additional work on our side.”
“Building and managing an on-premise installation at this scale would require a lot of engineer time, especially in the first year...we use this engineering time to work on initiatives closer to our core business”
“There’s complete transparency with everything MetricFire do which means we can accurately predict what we’ll be spending and comfortably keep within our budget.”
"Every time I have a question, I get an answer from support after just a couple of hours. Their technical knowledge is excellent.”
