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Monitoring CircleCI with collectd

Integrating CircleCI and collectd with your monitoring system

To integrate CircleCI and collectd with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating CircleCI and collectd and how that can support your monitoring system.

What is CircleCI?

How to set up a CircleCI webhook

To get your webhook URL from Hosted Graphite - Simply click the “Copy CircleCI webhook URL” button on the add-ons page, and add the URL to your circleCI configuration.

 

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To see the annotations on your graph, enable them in your dashboard settings and they will appear on your graph:

 



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See the Hosted Graphite Annotation docs for more information on configuring annotations on your dashboards.

What is collectd?

Forward Performance Metrics using the Collectd Agent

Install, configure, and deploy the Collectd agent in your systems/servers to collect and forward a wide range of performance metrics. Here are the basic steps, as outlined in the Hosted Graphite collectd docs:



  1. Install collectd on your system. It’s usually available via your normal package manager, e.g. apt-get install collectd
  2. From the Hosted Graphite Add-ons page, select collectd and download the appropriate configuration file
  3. Copy the downloaded configuration file to /etc/collect/collectd.conf
  4. Configure optional plugins to collect data from many different technologies and running processes on your servers, see their table of plugins HERE
  5. Restart collectd so that it uses the new configuration file, and metrics will appear in your Hosted Graphite account
  6. Collectd metrics should now be flowing into your Hosted Graphite account, and you can even generate a useful collectd dashboard from our Dashboard Library, which offers a great starting point:



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What is MetricFire?

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source tools. We will aggregate and store your data as time series metrics, which can be used to build custom dashboards and alerts. MetricFire takes away the burden of self-hosting your own monitoring solution, allowing you more time and freedom to work on your most important tasks.

 

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MetricFire offers a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of open-source Graphite and Grafana. MetricFire handles the aggregation, storage, and backups of your data, and offers alerting, team features, and API's for easy management of your monitoring environment. You can send server metrics using one of our agents, custom metrics from within your application code, and integration metrics from a variety of popular 3rd party services that we integrate with like Heroku, AWS, Azure, GCP, and many more!

         

Our Hosted Graphite product has improved upon standard Graphite to add data dimensionality, optimized storage, and offers additional tools and features that provide customers with a robust and well-rounded monitoring solution.

       

Benefits of Using MetricFire:

  • Simple, low-cost pricing
    A structured pricing model based on total unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allows you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric regardless of the source, or requests sent to and from the metric namespace.
  • Easy-to-use dashboards
    Our Hosted Dashboards provide endless options for customizing your visualizations, and allow you to share dashboards with clients.
  • Responsive alerting
    Receive alert notifications quickly through Email, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, and custom webhooks.
  • Freedom of customization
    Send custom application metrics through your code. Our Language Guide can help you update your codebase to send event metrics via socket connections.
  • Fantastic customer support
    Fast and friendly support is provided by engineers, for engineers, to get you set up quickly. Start a conversation with us through the chat bubble below!
  • Enterprise-ready
    Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment with custom parameters. Please reach out to us for more information.
      
The author for this testimonial, Jim Davies, Head of DevOps, MoneySuperMarket.com.
“As MetricFire scales effortlessly, we can push and store more metrics than we really need today but might need tomorrow. This increases our depth of understanding of the systems that we run and heads off any future problems.”
Jim Davies, Head of DevOps, MoneySuperMarket.com.

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