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To integrate webhooks and Amazon EC2 with your monitoring system, please reach out to MetricFire. Book a demo with the MetricFire team to discuss integrating webhooks and Amazon EC2 and how that can support your monitoring system.
Webhooks are user-defined HTTP callbacks triggered by an event, such as pushing code to a repository or posting a comment to a blog. They allow you to send data from one application to another whenever a specific event occurs. When an event is triggered, the source site makes an HTTP request to the URL configured for the webhook.
Webhooks are one of only a few methods available to allow web applications to exchange information with each other. At first, webhooks might seem like an API, but they are slightly different. Webhooks don't need to give a request to get a response, while APIs need to send a request to get a response. Webhooks let you receive, while APIs require you to retrieve. Think of it like API calls and polling need to knock on the door (requesting) to give that information to someone. Webhooks just simply throw that information at the door as there is no need to request permission.
There are many reasons to use webhooks. You could use a webhook to connect a payment gateway with your email marketing software to notify a customer by email if a payment bounces. You might use a webhook to send event data to external databases or data warehouses like Amazon's Redshift for further analysis. Or you could use webhooks to sync customer data between applications, such as when a user changes their email address. By using a webhook, you can ensure that the change is reflected in your CRM as well.
With MetricFire, you can use WebHooks in two different ways. First, they are useful for integrating metric data from various platforms and services, including CircleCi, Pingdom, Sentry, and more. Second, you can create WebHooks from within MetricFire to send notifications to applications and services that accept WebHooks.
Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is a web service provided by AWS and offers users the ability to run applications on the public cloud. Users and businesses can rent virtual computers, otherwise known as "Instances", in order to provide secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. By using Amazon EC2, it eliminates the need to buy hardware upfront, so you can focus more on developing and deploying applications quicker. Amazon EC2 also allows you to launch as many (or few) virtual servers as you need, manage your storage, and configure your security and networking. To reduce your need to forecast traffic, Amazon EC2 lets you scale up or down to handle potential changes in requirements or spikes in popularity.
Instances are made up of different operating systems and resource configurations, including CPU processing power, memory, networking, and storage. These instances are available as a selection of pre-configured environments users can choose from. The Amazon EC2 model is arguably the deepest and broadest global cloud computing model. As AWS states, Amazon EC2 offers the "fastest processors in the cloud" and are the "only cloud with 400 Gbps ethernet networking".
Amazon EC2 instances produce raw data and statistics on the state of its processes, performance. and health. Data is sent every 5 minutes by default, or can be configured to send every minute if detailed monitoring is enabled. This data is collected by Amazon CloudWatch, which can be integrated into the EC2 suite. It is then processed into readable, near real-time metrics. There are options in which these metrics are then displayed using easy to read graphs, and one is directly from the EC2 console. Another is to integrate Amazon CloudWatch with MetricFire.
With Metricfire, you can turbocharge your Amazon EC2 monitoring services. By integrating Amazon CloudWatch with the MetricFire platform, you can display your metrics on aesthetically pleasing dashboards. MetricFire's advanced filtering lets you choose only the data views you want to see and discard the rest. You can also set up simple rules to discard data you no longer keep, plus receive alerts via email or Slack when your block store is doing something it shouldn't.
To integrate webhooks and Amazon EC2 with your monitoring system, sign up for a free trial with MetricFire. Talk with the MetricFire team about how to integrate webhooks and Amazon EC2 and get webhooks and Amazon EC2 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.
“We now have over ten times the amount of metrics we started with, and on different accounts. One of the great things about MetricFire is that scaling to support this increase has been hassle-free, requiring no additional work on our side.”
“Building and managing an on-premise installation at this scale would require a lot of engineer time, especially in the first year...we use this engineering time to work on initiatives closer to our core business”
“There’s complete transparency with everything MetricFire do which means we can accurately predict what we’ll be spending and comfortably keep within our budget.”
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