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Monitoring Meraki MS 120 with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your Meraki MS 120 Environment

To integrate Meraki MS 120 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 cloud-based monitoring platform that offers a range of solutions for infrastructure monitoring, log management, and custom metrics. It integrates with various tools and services to provide a comprehensive view of the health and performance of your systems. One such tool is the Meraki MS 120, a cloud-managed switch from Cisco Meraki that provides reliable and secure networking for small to medium-sized businesses.

 

The MetricFire and Meraki MS 120 integration allow you to monitor the performance of your Meraki network switches and gain insights into their usage patterns. With this integration, you can collect metrics from your Meraki switches and analyze them in real-time to identify issues and optimize your network performance.

 

To set up the integration, you need to follow a few simple steps:

 

  • Create a MetricFire account if you haven't already. You can sign up for a free trial or a paid plan, depending on your needs.

 

  • Configure the Meraki integration: Once you have created your MetricFire account, you can configure the Meraki integration by navigating to the "Integrations" tab on the MetricFire dashboard and selecting "Meraki." You will need to provide your Meraki API key and the ID of the network you want to monitor.

 

  • Select the metrics to monitor: After you have configured the Meraki integration, you can select the metrics you want to monitor. MetricFire provides a range of metrics for Meraki MS 120, including CPU usage, memory usage, temperature, and more. You can select the metrics that are relevant to your needs and configure alerts to notify you when certain thresholds are exceeded.

  

  • Visualize and analyze the metrics: Once you have selected the metrics to monitor, you can visualize and analyze them using MetricFire's powerful dashboards and analytics tools. MetricFire provides a range of visualization options, including graphs, charts, and tables, and allows you to create custom dashboards to suit your needs.

 

Using MetricFire and Meraki MS 120 provides a comprehensive solution for monitoring and optimizing your network performance. With real-time monitoring and analytics, you can identify issues quickly and take proactive measures to ensure your network is running smoothly.

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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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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