Monitoring Virtual Routing and Forwarding with Grafana

To integrate Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Grafana with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Grafana and how that can support your monitoring system.

In IP-based (Internet Protocol) network routers, Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF) is a technology that allows multiple instances of a routing table to exist in the same router at the same time. These multiple instances of a routing table are able to work simultaneously. This eliminated the need for multiple devices, as network paths are allowed to be segmented. 

VRFs are also known to increase network security and improve network functionality due to the segregated traffic without requiring multiple routers. VRF can also be known as VPN routing. Internet service providers often create separate virtual private networks via VRFs, which can boost security by eliminating the need for encryption and authentication.

Grafana is an open-source platform and interactive visualization web application, for monitoring and observability. It allows you to query, visualize, alert on, and understand your metrics from multiple locations. With Grafana, it is possible to create, explore, and share dashboards with your team to build a data driven culture. It is often used in combination with time series databases such as Prometheus and Graphite.

Grafana can visualize the machine’s CPU, memory, network and other resource utilization with Prometheus and Grafana. It is also possible to visualize and alert for a high number of incoming web requests in your web app. MetricFire's Grafana as a Service is offered as a simple and effective way to visualize your Graphite and Prometheus metrics. This means setup is convenient and quick, so you can start making your Grafana dashboards right away.

To integrate Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Grafana with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Grafana and get Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Grafana interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

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.