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Monitoring collectd with Amazon EC2

Integrating collectd and Amazon EC2 with your monitoring system

To integrate collectd and Amazon EC2 with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating collectd and Amazon EC2 and how that can support your monitoring system.

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 Amazon EC2?

Collect and Forward EC2 Metrics from AWS Cloudwatch

MetricFire has an easy to use integration that pulls metrics from the Cloudwatch API, and forwards them to a Hosted Graphite account. You can configure this integration in a few simple steps:



  1. In your Hosted Graphite account, navigate to Add-Ons => AWS and +Add an AWS account by entering your Access key and Secret key.
  2. Now you can select which AWS services to pull metrics from, and even enable metric tagging (optional). Learn more about our AWS integration in the Hosted Graphite Cloudwatch docs.
  3. You can also name the account you've configured. This is recommended, especially if you are configuring multiple AWS accounts like dev, stage, and prod.
  4. Depending on your enabled AWS services and internal permissions settings, you might need to add our default AWS Policy to your IAM user to allow us to pull metrics from your AWS account.
  5. Metrics should be hitting your Hosted Graphite account within about 10 minutes. You can use these metrics to create custom Dashboards and Alerts, and you'll notice that some new dashboards have been automatically created in your HG account. We also have a handy AWS Overview dashboard that can be found in our Dashboard Library, which offers a great starting point.



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If you have any issues with configuring this integration, or need to integrate with a service that is not currently listed, please contact our team. We will be happy to help you out, and develop new AWS integrations for you!

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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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.”

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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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Questions?

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