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Monitoring NETGEAR Gigabit Switches with MetricFire

Monitoring NETGEAR Gigabit Switches with MetricFire for Better Visibility

To integrate NETGEAR Gigabit Switches and MetricFire, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating NETGEAR Gigabit Switches and MetricFire, and see how that benefits your monitoring system.

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. 
      

What is NETGEAR Gigabit Switches?

MetricFire is a cloud-based platform that offers advanced monitoring and analytics solutions for modern infrastructure, including networks, servers, applications, and more. With MetricFire, you can gain deep insights into your network's performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your infrastructure's overall performance. One of the key features of MetricFire is its ability to integrate with various network devices, including Netgear Gigabit switches.

 

Netgear Gigabit switches are advanced network switches that offer high-speed connectivity and advanced security features. These switches are widely used in small to medium-sized businesses to connect multiple devices and ensure reliable network performance. By integrating with MetricFire, Netgear Gigabit switches can provide real-time monitoring and alerting capabilities, making it easy to identify and troubleshoot network issues.

 

MetricFire provides two primary methods for integrating with Netgear Gigabit switches:

 

  • SNMP is a protocol used to monitor network devices, including switches, routers, and servers. With SNMP integration, MetricFire can collect performance data from Netgear Gigabit switches and generate real-time alerts based on predefined thresholds. SNMP integration with Netgear Gigabit switches requires the configuration of SNMP settings on the switch, such as SNMP community strings and SNMP versions.

 

  • Syslog is a protocol to collect and send system logs from network devices. With Syslog integration, MetricFire can collect logs from Netgear Gigabit switches and generate alerts based on predefined patterns. Syslog integration with Netgear Gigabit switches requires the configuration of syslog settings on the switch, such as syslog server IP address and port number.

 

To get started with MetricFire and Netgear Gigabit switch integration, follow these steps:

 

Visit the MetricFire website and sign up for a free trial account. Then install MetricFire agents on your network devices, including Netgear Gigabit switches. Configure SNMP or Syslog settings on your Netgear Gigabit switch, depending on the integration method you prefer. Once the integration is complete, MetricFire will start collecting performance data and logs from your Netgear Gigabit switches. The MetricFire dashboard can view real-time performance metrics and generate alerts based on predefined thresholds or patterns.

 

MetricFire provides powerful monitoring and analytics solutions for modern infrastructure, including Netgear Gigabit switches. With MetricFire integration, you can gain deep insights into your network's performance, troubleshoot issues, and optimize your infrastructure's overall performance.

How to Integrate NETGEAR Gigabit Switches and MetricFire to Improve Your Monitoring System

To integrate NETGEAR Gigabit Switches and MetricFire with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate NETGEAR Gigabit Switches and MetricFire, and get NETGEAR Gigabit Switches interacting with your MetricFire dashboards in minutes.

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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