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Monitoring Cisco's 800 Series Integrated Services Routers with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your Cisco's 800 Series Integrated Services Routers Environment

To integrate Cisco's 800 Series Integrated Services Routers 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.



In today's digital landscape, network performance and security are paramount for businesses of all sizes. Cisco's 800 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 800) have long been recognized as a reliable solution for managing network connectivity and security. To enhance the capabilities of these routers further, businesses turn to MetricFire. MetricFire is a powerful monitoring and observability platform that seamlessly integrates with Cisco ISR 800, providing real-time insights, proactive issue detection, and comprehensive management.

 

MetricFire's integration with Cisco ISR 800 enables organizations to monitor and manage their networks with unprecedented efficiency. Here's how the integration works:

  1. Real-Time Performance Monitoring: MetricFire collects and analyzes network performance data from Cisco ISR 800 devices in real time. This includes metrics like bandwidth usage, CPU and memory utilization, packet loss, and latency. Administrators can access these insights through a user-friendly dashboard, gaining a clear understanding of their network's health.

  2. Customizable Alerts: To ensure that network issues are addressed promptly, MetricFire allows users to set up customized alerts. These alerts can be configured to notify administrators via email, SMS, or other communication channels when predefined thresholds are exceeded. This proactive approach minimizes downtime and maintains network reliability.

  3. Historical Data Analysis: MetricFire stores historical performance data, allowing organizations to analyze trends over time. This is invaluable for capacity planning, identifying long-term performance bottlenecks, and making data-driven decisions to optimize the network's performance and cost-efficiency.

  4. Security Monitoring: Security is a top concern for any network. MetricFire extends its capabilities to monitor security events and anomalies on Cisco ISR 800 routers. By correlating security data with performance metrics, it helps in identifying and mitigating potential security threats in real time.

  5. Scalability: Whether you have a small office or a large enterprise network, MetricFire can scale to meet your needs. It seamlessly handles monitoring for a single Cisco ISR 800 device or a network of interconnected routers, ensuring that your monitoring solution grows with your network.

  6. Easy Integration: MetricFire's integration with Cisco ISR 800 is designed to be straightforward. Administrators can easily set up monitoring without complex configurations, ensuring a smooth onboarding process.

 

The integration of MetricFire with Cisco ISR 800 offers several key benefits to organizations:

  1. Enhanced Network Performance: With real-time monitoring and historical data analysis, administrators can optimize their network's performance, leading to improved user experiences and increased productivity.

  2. Reduced Downtime: Proactive alerts and issue detection minimize downtime, ensuring that network disruptions are addressed promptly.

  3. Cost Efficiency: By identifying performance bottlenecks and optimizing resource usage, MetricFire helps organizations save on infrastructure costs.

  4. Security: Monitoring security events and anomalies adds an extra layer of protection to your network, safeguarding sensitive data and ensuring regulatory compliance.

  5. Scalability: MetricFire's scalability means that the solution can grow with your network, eliminating the need for frequent tool migrations as your business expands.

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The integration of MetricFire with Cisco ISR 800 routers is a powerful combination that empowers organizations to take control of their network performance and security. With real-time monitoring, historical data analysis, and customizable alerts, MetricFire provides the insights and tools needed to ensure a reliable and secure network infrastructure. Whether you have a small office or a complex enterprise network, this integration offers a scalable and efficient solution to meet your needs.

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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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.”

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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.”

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