Integrate Port Channels and Arista Networks

To integrate Port Channels and Arista Networks with your monitoring system, reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Port Channels and Arista Networks and how that can support your monitoring system.

A Port Channel, otherwise known as a Link Aggregation Group (LAG), is a communication link between two switches. They aggregate multiple physical interfaces into one logical interface. In other words, they combine the bandwidth of multiple ethernet ports. By doing so, port channels can provide higher bandwidth, load balancing, and link redundancy in cases where links were to fail.

Arista Networks is an American computer networking company. Founded in 2004, they are now based in California, US. Arista provides a range of network hardware products, for example, multilayer network switches to deliver software-defined networking (SDN) solutions.

These are designed for large datacenter, high-performance computing, cloud computing, and high-frequency trading environments. They also provide a linux-based operating system for all their products named Extensible Operating System (EOS). Being a major competitor in the networking industry, Arista is considered among the best in this market.

To integrate Port Channels and Arista Networks with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Port Channels and Arista Networks and get Port Channels and Arista Networks interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

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MetricFire offers its users a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, which is made up of three of the most popular open-source monitoring software services: Prometheus, Graphite, and Grafana. As well, plugins for a number of 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, we also do application monitoring and business intelligence.

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Whether to use Prometheus or Graphite is a great question. We’ve looked deeper into this decision in our blog article, Prometheus or Graphite. While Prometheus is a newer software that has a multidimensional data structure, Graphite is robust and sufficient. 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.

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