Integrate Network Bridge Hardware and MetricFire

To integrate Network Bridge Hardware and MetricFire, reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Network Bridge Hardware and MetricFire, and see how that benefits your monitoring system.

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. 

A Bridge is a computer networking device used to connect two or more hosts or network segments together. This function, called Network Bridging, creates a single, aggregate network. As Bridging connects two separate networks as if they were a single network, it is different from Routing.

Routing allows multiple networks to communicate independently and yet remain separate. By looking at the MAC (Media Access Control) address of the devices connected to each segment, bridges can either forward data or block it from crossing. They are used to make a larger logical LAN, by connecting two physical LANs. In the OSI (open systems interconnection) Model, Bridges work only at the Physical and Data Link layers. There are three main types of network bridging technologies which are; simple bridging, multiport bridging, and learning or transparent bridging.

To integrate Network Bridge Hardware and MetricFire with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Network Bridge Hardware and MetricFire, and get Network Bridge Hardware interacting with your MetricFire dashboards in minutes.