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Monitoring Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex with MetricFire

Monitoring Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex with MetricFire for Better Visibility

To integrate Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex and MetricFire, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex 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:

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  • Easy-to-use dashboards
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  • 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 Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex?

MetricFire is a cloud-based monitoring platform that offers advanced infrastructure monitoring and visualization solutions to organizations of all sizes. Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex is a managed Gigabit Ethernet switch designed for building and expanding network infrastructures. Together, MetricFire and Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex can provide a comprehensive and efficient monitoring solution for your network infrastructure.

 

MetricFire offers seamless integration with Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex switches, allowing users to monitor switch performance and network traffic in real time. By leveraging the powerful monitoring capabilities of MetricFire, users can gain insight into the health and performance of their network infrastructure, identify potential issues before they become critical, and take proactive measures to optimize performance and prevent downtime.

 

To integrate MetricFire with Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex, users can follow the steps below:

 

  • Log in to the MetricFire platform and navigate to the "Integrations" page.

 

  • Select "Ubiquiti UniFi" from the list of integrations.

 

  • Enter the IP address or hostname of the Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex switch and provide the necessary credentials.

 

  • Once the integration is set up, MetricFire will automatically start collecting data from the switch, including network traffic, CPU usage, and memory usage.

 

  • Users can then create custom dashboards and visualizations using the collected data to gain insights into the performance of their network infrastructure.

 

Some of the benefits of using MetricFire with Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex switches include:

 

  • Real-time monitoring: MetricFire provides real-time monitoring of switch performance and network traffic, allowing users to identify potential issues and take proactive measures to prevent downtime.

 

  • Custom dashboards: MetricFire allows users to create custom dashboards and visualizations to gain insight into the performance of their network infrastructure.

 

  • Historical data: MetricFire stores historical data, allowing users to track trends over time and identify patterns in network usage and performance.

 

  • Alerting: MetricFire offers powerful alerting capabilities, allowing users to set up alerts for specific thresholds and receive notifications when performance metrics exceed predefined limits.

 

Using MetricFire with Ubiquiti UniFi USW Flex switches provides organizations with a comprehensive and efficient monitoring solution for their network infrastructure. By leveraging the powerful monitoring capabilities of MetricFire, users can gain insight into the health and performance of their network infrastructure, identify potential issues before they become critical, and take proactive measures to optimize performance and prevent downtime.

How to Integrate Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex and MetricFire to Improve Your Monitoring System

To integrate Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex and MetricFire with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex and MetricFire, and get Ubiquiti Unifi USW-Flex 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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