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Monitoring GitHub with Amazon ELB

Integrating GitHub and Amazon ELB with your monitoring system

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

What is GitHub?

GitHub is a service for hosting code and doing version control for code. The foundations of GitHub is "Git" - which is an open source version control system. 

Git allows multiple coders to contribute to one project, while remembering which is the most up-to-date version. Git also remembers who contributed and what they contributed to the project. All modifications and revisions are stored in a central repository, and contributions are made through a pull request. 

Pull requests can be made by anybody, but they must be approved by the repository admin. In some projects, pull requests can be contributed without approval. However, most projects have some quality assurance processes. 

When doing application performance monitoring for a project built in GitHub, you’ll want to export data about your GitHub setup into your regular monitoring dashboards. You want to monitor when changes happen, and the effect they have on your system. 

For example, if you make a change to your code, and suddenly the latency of requests to your server increases - you’ll want to know exactly which pull request caused that change. If you didn’t know that there were any changes in your code, then you wouldn’t be able to correlate the change in your code with the changes in how your system is behaving. This will slow down your debugging process. 

With MetricFire, you can get all of your monitoring dashboards automatically annotated with the changes you’ve made to your code in GitHub. If there are any changes in behavior, a small note will be present in the graph to tell you what’s happening in your environment. 

This enables you to automatically monitor the correlation between GitHub changes and how your system is functioning.

What is Amazon ELB?

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing is a tool that automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, including Amazon EC2 instances, containers, virtual appliances, Lambda functions, and IP addresses. Your application traffic can be handled by a single availability zone or across multiple zones. 

 

There are four types of load balancers available with Amazon Elastic Load Balancing:

  • The Application Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing HTTP and HTTPS traffic with advanced request routing targeted at modern application architectures, including microservices and containers.
  • The Network Load Balancer is best suited for load balancing Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), Transport Layer Security (TLS), and User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic where extreme performance is required. 
  • The Gateway Load Balancer is used to deploy and run third-party virtual networking appliances. It provides load balancing and auto-scaling for collections of third-party apps.
  • The Classic Load Balancer gives you basic load balancing across multiple Amazon EC2 instances. It operates at both the connection and request levels.

 

Amazon Elastic Load Balancing monitors your applications' health and performance in real-time with Amazon CloudWatch metrics, logging, and request tracing. These monitoring tools help you analyze your applications' behavior, uncover issues, and identify performance bottlenecks in your application stack. By using Elastic Load Balancing, you can also ensure compliance with application Service Level Agreements (SLAs).

With Metricfire, you can turbocharge your Amazon Elastic Load Balancing monitoring services. By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the Metricfire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when your load balancing is doing something it shouldn't.

How to integrate GitHub and Amazon ELB with your monitoring system

To integrate GitHub and Amazon ELB with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate GitHub and Amazon ELB and get GitHub and Amazon ELB interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

What is MetricFire?

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source monitoring tools. We enable you to use Hosted Graphite and aesthetic custom dashboards to visualize your metrics so you can understand what is happening.

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MetricFire offers users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of popular open-source monitoring software services: Graphite and popular dashboards. Plugins for many other open-source projects are preconfigured, such as StatsD, collectd, and Kubernetes. You get all these within a hosted environment as a single product. Not only does MetricFire fit well into the infrastructure monitoring use-case, such as network monitoring and server monitoring, but we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.

         

Through this hosted environment, MetricFire boosts the unique features of open-source projects to give you more functionality than the original products. Below are some of the MetricFire features at a glance: 

  • Cloud Monitoring

  • Hosted Graphite

  • Dashboards


The key thing to remember is that Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is more than just Graphite. Our Hosted Graphite product actually adds data dimensionality and better data storage.

       

The benefits of MetricFire are:

  • Simple, low-cost pricing
    A structured pricing model based on unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allow you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric.


  • Easy-to-use dashboards
    Easily share your dashboards with clients for free.


  • Responsive alerting
    Alert notification integrations PagerDuty, Slack, email, and webhooks.


  • Freedom of customization
    Custom metrics through your code.


  • Fantastic customer support
    Highly available support is provided by engineers for engineers to get you set up quickly.


  • Enterprise-ready
    Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment. 
      
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