Monitoring Load Balancers with Grafana

Integrating Load Balancers and Grafana with your monitoring system

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

What are Load Balancers?

Load balancing is a process used in computing, and is in the field of parallel computers. This process involves sharing or distributing a set of tasks over a set of resources. These resources can be a set of physical or virtual components of a computer system. The result of load balancing makes the processing of these tasks more efficient and optimized. This helps to avoid unevenly overloading compute nodes while other compute nodes are idling and not doing anything.

Load balancing is often approached in two ways, static algorithms and dynamic algorithms. Static algorithms do not take into account the current state of the different machines. The Dynamic algorithm approach, however, exchanges information between the different computing units. This process may result in a loss of efficiency, but the reward usually outweighs the risk. This approach is used more generally.

What is Grafana?

Grafana is an open-source platform and interactive visualization web application, for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics from multiple locations. With Grafana, it is possible to create, explore, and share dashboards with your team to build a data driven culture. It is often used in combination with time series databases such as Prometheus and Graphite.

Grafana can visualize the machine’s CPU, memory, network and other resource utilization with Prometheus and Grafana. It is also possible to visualize and alert for a high number of incoming web requests in your web app. MetricFire's Grafana as a Service is offered as a simple and effective way to visualize your Graphite and Prometheus metrics. This means setup is convenient and quick, so you can start making your Grafana dashboards right away.

How to integrate Load Balancers and Grafana with your monitoring system

To integrate Load Balancers and Grafana with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Load Balancers and Grafana and get Load Balancers and Grafana 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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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:

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