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Monitoring Cisco SE1500 with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your Cisco SE1500 Environment

To integrate Cisco SE1500 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 monitoring and observability platform that enables organizations to gain deep insights into their infrastructure, applications, and services. It provides comprehensive monitoring capabilities, real-time analytics, and customizable dashboards, empowering businesses to make data-driven decisions and ensure the optimal performance of their systems. One of the key benefits of MetricFire is its ability to integrate with a wide range of devices and platforms, including networking equipment like the Cisco SE1500.

 

The Cisco SE1500 is a cost-effective and efficient switch designed for small businesses. It offers advanced features such as Quality of Service (QoS), VLAN support, and energy-saving technology. By integrating MetricFire with the Cisco SE1500, businesses can enhance their network monitoring capabilities and gain valuable insights into the performance and health of their network infrastructure.

 

You can easily get insights from your Cisco devices with the Telegraf plugin by downloading a custom telegraf config in your Hosted Graphite account if you navigate to Agents => Telegraf. Then install telegraf using the steps outlined in our docs, and replace the default config with the custom config at the path that telegraf is installed at.

 

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To integrate MetricFire with the Cisco SE1500, follow these steps:

 

  1. Sign up for a MetricFire account: Create an account on the MetricFire website. MetricFire offers various plans to suit different business needs, including a free trial option.

  2. Obtain the SNMP credentials: Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a protocol used for network management and monitoring. To integrate MetricFire with the Cisco SE1500, you'll need to enable SNMP on the switch and obtain the SNMP credentials, including the SNMP community string.

  3. Configure SNMP on the Cisco SE1500: Log in to the Cisco SE1500 switch's administration interface using a web browser. Navigate to the SNMP configuration section and enable SNMP. Set the community string and specify the IP address of the MetricFire platform as the SNMP manager.

  4. Configure MetricFire to receive SNMP data: In your MetricFire account, navigate to the Integrations section. Look for the SNMP integration and configure it by providing the IP address of the Cisco SE1500 switch, along with the SNMP community string.

  5. Define metrics and create dashboards: Once MetricFire is configured to receive SNMP data from the Cisco SE1500, you can start defining the metrics you want to monitor. MetricFire allows you to select specific SNMP OID (Object Identifier) values to collect data from the switch. These OIDs represent different aspects of the switch's performance, such as bandwidth usage, port status, and error rates. After defining the metrics, you can create customized dashboards in MetricFire to visualize and analyze the data.

  6. Set up alerts and notifications: MetricFire enables you to set up alerts based on predefined thresholds or anomalies in the collected data. You can configure alerts to notify you via email, Slack, PagerDuty, or other communication channels when specific conditions are met. This helps you proactively identify and address potential issues with the Cisco SE1500.

  7. Monitor and analyze network performance: With MetricFire integrated with the Cisco SE1500, you can now monitor the performance of your network infrastructure in real time. Use MetricFire's intuitive dashboards to gain insights into network traffic, port utilization, errors, and other crucial metrics. Analyze historical data to identify trends, patterns, and potential bottlenecks, allowing you to optimize your network's performance.

 

By integrating MetricFire with the Cisco SE1500, businesses can leverage the power of a robust monitoring platform to ensure the smooth operation of their network infrastructure. With comprehensive visibility into network performance metrics, proactive alerting, and insightful analytics, organizations can make informed decisions and quickly respond to any issues, ultimately improving the overall efficiency and reliability of their network.

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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“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.”

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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.”

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