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Monitoring Cisco NCS 5500 with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your Cisco NCS 5500 Environment

To integrate Cisco NCS 5500 with MetricFire, please sign up for a free 14 day trial. We want to fully understand your requirements and monitoring goals, so we can advise you on how to obtain better visibility into your infrastructure. Please book a demo with us so we can show you how quick and easy it is to get meaningful data into your MetricFire account, and use that data to build custom dashboards and alerts.



MetricFire is a powerful cloud-based monitoring and analytics platform designed to help businesses gain insights into their network infrastructure, applications, and services. It offers a wide range of features, including real-time monitoring, data visualization, alerting, and historical data analysis. MetricFire supports numerous data sources and integrations, making it a versatile choice for organizations seeking to monitor and optimize their network performance.

 

Key Benefits of MetricFire Integration with Cisco NCS 5500

  • Real-time Visibility: MetricFire provides real-time visibility into the performance and health of Cisco NCS 5500 devices and the network they support. This visibility is crucial for detecting and addressing issues promptly, minimizing downtime, and ensuring a seamless user experience.

  • Scalability: Cisco's NCS 5500 is designed to handle large-scale network environments, and MetricFire is equipped to scale alongside it. MetricFire's cloud-based architecture ensures that as your network grows, monitoring capabilities can easily expand to accommodate the increased demand.

  • Comprehensive Data Collection: MetricFire's integration with NCS 5500 allows for the collection of a wide range of network performance metrics. These include data on bandwidth utilization, latency, packet loss, CPU and memory usage, interface statistics, and more. This comprehensive data collection empowers network administrators to make informed decisions and proactively address issues.

  • Customizable Dashboards: MetricFire offers customizable dashboards that allow users to create visualizations tailored to their specific needs. With easy-to-use drag-and-drop features, users can create intuitive dashboards that display real-time and historical network performance data, helping them gain insights quickly.

  • Alerting and Notification: MetricFire enables users to set up customized alerting rules based on predefined thresholds. When anomalies or performance issues are detected, MetricFire can send notifications via email, SMS, or integrations with collaboration tools like Slack or Microsoft Teams. This proactive approach helps network administrators respond swiftly to potential problems.

  • Historical Data Analysis: Beyond real-time monitoring, MetricFire stores historical data, enabling users to perform in-depth analysis and trend analysis. This feature aids in capacity planning, troubleshooting, and long-term network optimization.

  • Security: Security is a top priority when monitoring network infrastructure. MetricFire ensures data confidentiality and integrity through robust encryption methods and access controls, keeping your network data safe from unauthorized access.

  • Easy Integration: MetricFire offers easy integration with Cisco NCS 5500 through standard protocols and APIs, simplifying the setup process and reducing the time required to start monitoring your network.

  

In today's digital landscape, reliable and scalable network monitoring solutions are essential to ensure optimal network performance and minimize downtime. MetricFire's integration with Cisco 5500 Series Network Convergence System (NCS 5500) offers organizations the tools they need to gain real-time visibility, scalability, and actionable insights into their network infrastructure. By leveraging MetricFire's capabilities, businesses can enhance the performance, security, and reliability of their network environments, ultimately contributing to improved customer experiences and operational efficiency.

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.

Don't just take our word for it

Why thousands of engineers choose us:

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Vendor lock-in's not our thing. We’re believers in you still owning your data, so you can request a full export at any time. That means you get all the benefits of an open-source tool, but with the security and stability of a SaaS tool.

“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.”

Maxime Audet, Cloud-Ops Team Lead, Coveo

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Save valuable engineering time and stick within your budget. We're known for our predictable and transparent pricing so it's easy to keeps costs under control.

“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”

Jim Davies, Head of DevOps, MoneySuperMarket.com

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Transparency is at the root of how we operate: from pricing to postmortems we're open about how we do things. We even publish our internal system metrics to our public status page.

“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.”

Itai Yaffe, Big Data Developer, Nielsen

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Our first line, technical support comes from engineers, for engineers. So you get highly detailed, expert support when you need it.

"Every time I have a question, I get an answer from support after just a couple of hours. Their technical knowledge is excellent.”

Shahar Kobrinsky, VP of Architecture and Scale, Eyeview

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