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Monitoring webhooks with GitHub

Integrating webhooks and GitHub with your monitoring system

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

What is webhooks?

Use Webhooks to Forward Events and Notifications to your MetricFire Account

With MetricFire, you can use Webhooks in three different ways. First, you can use webhooks generated in your Hosted Graphite account to connect to 3rd party platforms and services, including CircleCi, Pingdom, GitHub, GitLab, Sentry, and more. This will import events from your services to the Hosted Graphite backend that can be viewed as annotations. See our Add-Ons and integrations docs for more details per service.



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Second, you can use custom Webhooks as a programmatic notification method for when an alert is triggered. See the Hosted Graphite Alerting Guide for more information.



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Third, you can monitor the performance of your application's webhook endpoints using the Telegraf agent:



  1. Install the Telegraf Agent on any servers/systems that are hosting your MongoDB instances. See our Telegraf docs for detailed instructions on installing the agent and configuring it to forward metrics to your MetricFire account.
  2. Now you can configure Telegraf's http_response input plugin. See our handy blog article for detailed instructions HERE, and the official GiHub repository HERE
  3. Then just restart Telegraf to see new metrics appear in your MetricFire account's Metrics Search UI
  4. You can use these metrics to create Dashboard panels and Graphite alerts


What is GitHub?

Visualize GitHub Events with Webhooks

MetricFire makes it easy to collect data from your repositories, and visualize GitHub events in the form of dashboard annotations. To enable our webhook integration, copy the webhook from Add-Ons => GitHub in your Hosted Graphite account:

 



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Then add the webhook to your GitHub repo, in the ‘settings’ section => ‘webhooks’

 

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Now you can save, and your GitHub events will now be sent to the webhook URL and saved on your account as Annotations. Use the following tags to query the annotations you want to display:


  1. Push Event Tags – ‘github’, ‘push’, <repo>, <branch>, <user>
  2. PR Event Tags – ‘github’, ‘pull-request’, <action>, <repo>, <user>
  3. Deploy Event Tags – ‘github’, ‘deployment’, <status>, <repo>, <user>, <environment>



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Visualize GitHub Metrics using the Telegraf Agent

Additionally, there is also a Telegraf Input plugin for GitHub. This plugin will send a variety of metrics to your Hosted Graphite account for increased visibility into your repositories. See our handy blog article with detailed configuration instructions HERE, and the official GH repository HERE.



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What is MetricFire?

MetricFire is a full-scale platform that provides infrastructure, system, and application monitoring using a suite of open-source tools. We will aggregate and store your data as time series metrics, which can be used to build custom dashboards and alerts. MetricFire takes away the burden of self-hosting your own monitoring solution, allowing you more time and freedom to work on your most important tasks.

 

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MetricFire offers a complete ecosystem of end-to-end infrastructure monitoring, comprised of open-source Graphite and Grafana. MetricFire handles the aggregation, storage, and backups of your data, and offers alerting, team features, and API's for easy management of your monitoring environment. You can send server metrics using one of our agents, custom metrics from within your application code, and integration metrics from a variety of popular 3rd party services that we integrate with like Heroku, AWS, Azure, GCP, and many more!

         

Our Hosted Graphite product has improved upon standard Graphite to add data dimensionality, optimized storage, and offers additional tools and features that provide customers with a robust and well-rounded monitoring solution.

       

Benefits of Using MetricFire:

  • Simple, low-cost pricing
    A structured pricing model based on total unique time series metrics allows you to work within your budget. The predictability and transparent pricing allows you to keep your costs in check and plan for the future. 1 metric is 1 metric regardless of the source, or requests sent to and from the metric namespace.
  • Easy-to-use dashboards
    Our Hosted Dashboards provide endless options for customizing your visualizations, and allow you to share dashboards with clients.
  • Responsive alerting
    Receive alert notifications quickly through Email, PagerDuty, Slack, Microsoft Teams, OpsGenie, and custom webhooks.
  • Freedom of customization
    Send custom application metrics through your code. Our Language Guide can help you update your codebase to send event metrics via socket connections.
  • Fantastic customer support
    Fast and friendly support is provided by engineers, for engineers, to get you set up quickly. Start a conversation with us through the chat bubble below!
  • Enterprise-ready
    Dedicated clusters for users that need their own environment with custom parameters. Please reach out to us for more information.
      
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.”
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