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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.
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.
A virtual machine is the process of creating a computer within a computer. It is a virtualization or emulation of a computer system. A virtual machine has its own CPU, memory, network interface, and storage. This is created on a physical hardware system, and is located in a different location. This can be off-premise, or on-premise. As VM’s provide functionality of a physical computer, they are often implemented with specialized hardware, software, or a combination of the two. These physical machines are known as “hosts”. Hosts use a hypervisor which is used to relocate compute resources (like CPU and memory) between “guest” machines/computers.
These Virtual Machines allow for multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same computer. There are 2 common types of virtual machines, System virtual machines (also known as full virtualization VMs), and Process virtual machines. The former provides a substitute for a real machine/computer, while the later are able to execute computer programs in a platform-independent environment.
To integrate Virtual Machines and MetricFire with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Virtual Machines and MetricFire, and get Virtual Machines interacting with your MetricFire dashboards in minutes.
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