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To integrate Heroku and Graphite APIs with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Heroku and Graphite APIs and how that can support your monitoring system.
MetricFire manages a Heroku Add-On that forwards your Log-Drain output to a Hosted Graphite backend. All you need to do is provision the Add-On from within your Heroku UI, or from within your Heroku CLI with a similar command:
heroku addons:add hostedgraphite -a <app-name>
You can now navigate to your new account by clicking on the Hosted Graphite add-on link in the Heroku UI, and wait for the metrics to appear. You can use the Heroku dyno/router metrics to build custom dashboards and alerts. See the Hosted Graphite Heroku docs for more details and configuration options.
MetricFire also has automatically generated dashboards specifically designed for Heroku apps. Once you have provisioned the hostedgraphite Add-On with Heroku, you will be able to see your automatically generated dashboards displaying data from your Heroku app(s):
Additionally, you can create a Heroku app webhook in your Hosted Graphite account, and configure in your Heroku account to send annotations around your Heroku events, like when you provision Add-Ons or make a new deployment. Just navigate to Add-Ons => Heroku i your HG account and copy the webhook:
Now you can just copy this webhook and paste it into your Heroku account (More => View Webhooks => Create Webhook):
Graphite-API is designed to fetch metrics from time series databases such as Whisper. Once it has gathered the metrics, the Graphite Render API can then be used to render JSON data out of each of these time series. Graphite-API is an API-based alternative to Graphite-web, so it does not have any built-in dashboards. Instead, this AP server tool replicates Graphite-web behavior, and works with the abundant Graphite dashboard applications available on the market such as Grafana.
Graphite API does not come with any web or graphical interfaces on its own. This feature gap is where MetricFire comes into play, by providing a Hosted Dashboarding environment for visualizations, and MetricFire's own API's that can be used to programmatically manage your Hosted Graphite account.
With our Hosted Graphite solution, we've taken the best parts of open-source Graphite and supercharged them. We also added everything missing in Graphite: built-in aggregation, storage, backups, alerting, team accounts, granular dashboard permissions, and integrations with other technologies and services like AWS, Azure, GCP, Heroku, and more. Hosted Graphite's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see, so you can discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email, PagerDuty, and Slack among others.
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.
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.
“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.”
“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”
“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.”
"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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