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Monitoring NVIDIA Spectrum switches with MetricFire

Gain Visibility into your NVIDIA Spectrum switches Environment

To integrate NVIDIA Spectrum switches 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 robust and comprehensive monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations gain valuable insights into their infrastructure and applications. With its wide range of integrations, MetricFire enables users to collect, analyze, visualize, and alert on metrics and logs from various sources. One of the integrations that MetricFire supports is with NVIDIA Spectrum switches, providing users with enhanced monitoring capabilities for their network infrastructure.

 

NVIDIA Spectrum switches are high-performance Ethernet switches designed for modern data centers. They offer high bandwidth, low latency, and advanced features, making them ideal for demanding workloads and high-speed data transfers. By integrating with MetricFire, users can leverage the powerful monitoring capabilities of the MetricFire platform to gain valuable insights into the performance and health of their NVIDIA Spectrum switches.

 

The MetricFire integration with NVIDIA Spectrum switches allows users to collect and monitor key metrics related to the switches' performance, network traffic, and port statistics. These metrics can include information such as bandwidth utilization, packet loss, error rates, and port status. By tracking these metrics over time, users can identify potential bottlenecks, troubleshoot network issues, and optimize the performance of their switches.

 

To integrate MetricFire with NVIDIA Spectrum switches, users can leverage the flexibility of MetricFire's agent-based approach. The MetricFire agent can be installed on the switches or on servers within the network to collect and forward the metrics to the MetricFire platform. The agent supports various protocols and interfaces commonly used by network devices, such as SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) and REST APIs, allowing seamless integration with NVIDIA Spectrum switches.

 

Once the metrics are collected by the MetricFire agent, they are sent to the MetricFire platform for storage, analysis, and visualization. MetricFire provides a powerful querying language and flexible dashboards that enable users to create custom visualizations and reports based on the collected data. Users can set up alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds, ensuring proactive monitoring and timely response to any issues or anomalies detected in the NVIDIA Spectrum switches.

 

MetricFire's integration with NVIDIA Spectrum switches complements its existing capabilities in monitoring other components of the infrastructure. Users can combine the switch metrics with metrics from servers, containers, databases, and other network devices to gain a holistic view of their entire infrastructure and identify correlations and dependencies.

 

The integration of MetricFire with NVIDIA Spectrum switches offers organizations a comprehensive monitoring solution for their network infrastructure. By leveraging MetricFire's powerful monitoring and visualization capabilities, users can gain deep insights into the performance and health of their switches, enabling them to optimize network operations, troubleshoot issues efficiently, and ensure the smooth functioning of their data centers.

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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Why thousands of engineers choose us:

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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.”

Maxime Audet, Cloud-Ops Team Lead, Coveo

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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.”

Shahar Kobrinsky, VP of Architecture and Scale, Eyeview

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