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Monitoring Datto Switches with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your Datto Switches Environment

To integrate Datto Switches 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 robust monitoring and observability platform that offers a wide range of solutions to help businesses monitor their infrastructure and applications effectively. One of the many integrations offered by MetricFire is with Datto switches, providing users with comprehensive insights into their network performance and enabling proactive monitoring and troubleshooting.

 

Datto switches are renowned for their reliability and performance, delivering high-quality networking solutions for businesses of all sizes. By integrating MetricFire with Datto switches, users gain access to advanced monitoring capabilities, allowing them to keep a close eye on their network infrastructure and identify potential issues before they impact operations.

 

The integration between MetricFire and Datto switches provides several key benefits:

 

  • Network Visibility: MetricFire collects and analyzes network data from Datto switches, giving users a comprehensive view of their network infrastructure. This includes metrics such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, latency, and error rates. With this visibility, network administrators can identify bottlenecks, analyze network performance trends, and make data-driven decisions to optimize their network.

 

  • Real-Time Monitoring: MetricFire offers real-time monitoring capabilities, allowing users to continuously monitor the health and performance of their Datto switches. By setting up custom dashboards and alerts, administrators can stay informed about critical network metrics and receive notifications when anomalies or performance issues arise. This proactive approach helps minimize downtime and ensures a reliable network infrastructure.

 

  • Troubleshooting and Diagnostics: When issues occur within the network, MetricFire provides powerful diagnostic tools to help identify the root cause quickly. With detailed historical data and analytics, administrators can perform in-depth analysis, trace the flow of network traffic, and pinpoint problematic areas or devices. This information enables efficient troubleshooting, reducing mean time to repair (MTTR) and minimizing the impact on business operations.

 

  • Capacity Planning and Optimization: By leveraging the integration between MetricFire and Datto switches, organizations can gain valuable insights into their network's capacity and optimize resource allocation. Metrics such as network utilization and traffic patterns can be analyzed to identify potential bottlenecks or overutilized links. This information facilitates informed capacity planning decisions, ensuring optimal performance and scalability of the network infrastructure.

 

  • Historical Reporting and Analytics: MetricFire stores historical data collected from Datto switches, allowing users to generate comprehensive reports and perform in-depth analysis. This historical data provides valuable insights into long-term network trends, patterns, and performance metrics. Users can leverage this information for capacity planning, trend analysis, compliance audits, and other strategic decision-making processes.

 

Integrating MetricFire with Datto switches empowers businesses to monitor their network infrastructure comprehensively, optimize performance, and ensure smooth operations. With real-time monitoring, troubleshooting capabilities, and historical analysis, organizations can proactively identify and resolve network issues, leading to improved network reliability, increased productivity, and enhanced user experiences.

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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“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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"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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