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Monitoring Virtual Routing and Forwarding with Prometheus

Integrating Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Prometheus with your monitoring system

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

What is Virtual Routing and Forwarding?

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.

What is Prometheus?

Prometheus an open-source systems monitoring and alerting software. It was originally built at SoundCloud in 2012, and now has a very active developer and user community. Prometheus records real-time metrics in a time series database. It is built using a http pull model and has a flexible query language (PromQL) with real-time alerting. The Prometheus server actively pulls (scrapes) metrics from applications it monitors. This is in contrast to other tools such as Graphite, which passively waits for the applications to push their metrics.

 

Prometheus is composed of multiple components, such as; The Prometheus Server, Client Libraries and Exporters, Push Gateway, Alertmanager, and various support tools. MetricFire's Hosted Prometheus is maintained, updated, and hosted for ultimate ease of use. Setup is convenient and quick, which addresses common issues found with integrating and maintaining open source Prometheus.

How to integrate Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Prometheus with your monitoring system

To integrate Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Prometheus 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 Prometheus and get Virtual Routing and Forwarding and Prometheus interacting with your MetricFire dashboards directly.

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:

  • 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. 
      
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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