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As a Graphite and Visualizations service, MetricFire collects, stores, and visualizes time-series data from various sources on its easy-to-use infrastructure and application monitoring platform.
MetricFire can run on-premises or in the cloud and offers a full suite of support options, from alerting design to analytics and overall monitoring. In addition, you can fine-tune your MetricFire experience with a host of third-party plugins.
Whether you need to integrate a webhook from GitHub, quickly collaborate with your security team on Slack, or figure out an issue with the CI pipeline with CircleCI, MetricFire can do it all in a few simple steps.
Monitoring servers, applications, networks, or any other part of the IT infrastructure is essential to fast-growing tech companies, and MetricFire covers monitoring in all of these areas. MetricFire's users include major multinational coffee brewers, online game companies, several data science firms, SaaS providers, and many other companies from different sectors.
Installing your monitoring software is neither simple nor cost-effective without MetricFire around. If you’re a startup, you don’t want to exhaust some of your funding to maintain a team of engineers for monitoring purposes. Getting MetricFire’s services to take care of your every monitoring task makes more sense. You won't have to build your monitoring solution or hire your team.
At the centre of MetricFire’s offering lies our services, which absorb millions of metrics and allow you to watch your metrics in real time on stunning dashboards. MetricFire’s services can add tagging and data aggregation to the mix of open-source tools already available on the platform.
The technology available at MetricFire is also an amplified version of the open-source Graphite. Data aggregation is automatic with MetricFire, unlike with open-source Graphite, which saves only one data point per resolution interval.
MetricFire has no limit on the number of data points saved per interval. It saves multiple data points and aggregates them in more than nine ways with no extra configuration.
All these features don’t mean MetricFire costs an arm and a leg. Plans start at $19 monthly and scale alongside your growth as your company scales. You pay for what you use.
Affordable Pricing
We have amongst the most competitive pricing in the market. While we are dedicated to providing enterprise solutions to our trusted partners, we also want to ensure no organization is left out because of its size or shape.
MetricFire pricing options are available for large and extra-large teams but have some limitations. Even when it comes to enterprise pricing, we can still offer the best pricing in the market. MetricFire costs half as much as DataDog’s pricing and is significantly lower than AWS CloudWatch's.
Priority Support
Enterprises just don’t need support. They want tailored support for their product on demand, regardless of the time of day. When they encounter a problem with their software, they don’t want some operators to listen to them. They want quick resolution with a defined SLA.
They seek support from engineers and developers who have precise information about the product and their IT setup, software resources, hardware capabilities, and past or persistent issues. In a nutshell, you need an expert developer whom you can trust when things go wrong.
MetricFire offers first-line, deep technical support from experts whenever you need it. Our on-call team works continuously throughout the year with automated monitoring worldwide.
Open Source at Heart
MetricFire is built upon various open-source monitoring tools such as Graphite and Visualizations. We host these tools to offer them as a service and add functionalities to counter their limitations; they still retain all the properties of vanilla Graphite and Visualizations.
MetricFire charges only for the services, not the software itself. Your data remains yours; you can easily migrate to and from MetricFire without risking proprietary data lock-in.
When companies become too reliant upon a single vendor or solution, they can become victims of vendor lock-in. Vendor lock-in is a common problem among companies using proprietary software, databases, or platforms. Problems arise when organizations are incapable of moving to an alternative vendor without significant expense or business disruption.
Growing organizations are especially vulnerable to vendor lock-in because the out-of-the-box solutions that made sense when they started no longer work for them as their business expands.
Many companies are actively trying to reduce their risk of vendor lock-in. One solution is switching to open-source software or a hosted service like MetricFire - where you can easily retain all of your freedoms without having to handle the operation challenges.
Choice of Server Location
MetricFire has servers in Europe and the US to ensure your incoming metrics don’t suffer from high latency and remain truly real-time, even when scaling up to absorb new end-users. MetricFire gives you the flexibility that only a few hosted solutions can offer.
On-Premises Available
Keeping network monitoring on-premises gives you a level of control and added security that cloud-based solutions can't offer. This is the primary reason IT professionals don't move from “on-premises”, even in a fast-changing world, towards a “cloud-first” attitude.
They need to organize solutions to match their requirements precisely, and they don’t want to work around their cloud provider for security limitations or performance reliability.
What good is a monitoring solution, hosted or not, if it isn’t real-time? MetricFire's on-premises network monitoring software solutions collect data with real-time speed and accuracy, improving your response time to issues.
Although people's trust in the security of public clouds is catching up to on-premises security, many organizations still find it more comfortable to store their data on-premises. As security remains a growing challenge for IT operations, on-premises solutions offer much-needed relief by providing granular control over the access and security of your data.
Fortunately, on-premises is one of the options when switching to MetricFire.
Community Supported Dashboards
The dashboards available within the MetricFire platform have been developed by the open-source community, not by a team or the organization behind the tool. The dashboards are continuously being developed and driven by extensive community feedback. They will have fewer bugs and more functionality than any other proprietary technology at any point in time.
Therefore, we insist on community-supported dashboards, which are better quality than those developed within a corporation like DataDog’s proprietary one.
Light-Weight Dashboards
With all those neat graphics and a continuous data stream, doesn't it slow down your computer? While our dashboards might require a lot of memory to run, they are designed to be run on bare hardware. Our dashboards only hogs a little bit more computing resources than a calculator.
Using MetricFire is even more efficient. With the dashboards hosted in our web app, viewing your Visualization dashboard won't take up any more resources than opening a new tab on your browser. Think of our dashboards as streaming games you can play on any device—the graphical computations are done off your computer, and the dashboards are streamed.
Customized Dashboards
We know your team has many engineers but few designers. Yet, you want the dashboard to look picture-perfect for monitoring your application. You also want many different features, but you don't want your dashboard to get cluttered. No worries; our team can customize the perfect dashboard for you.
We will download and install any dashboard from the resource list onto your MetricFire account, and if you can't find one you like there, we will build some that better suit your needs.
Redundancy of Data (N+2)
Backups are boring, especially when you have to make the copies yourself. They are also costly. You must bear the storage cost on a cloud drive or a shared hosting account. However, backups can be a real lifesaver in case of failures due to human errors or natural calamities. You must also have the other copy of your data readily available to avoid disruption.
However, just one copy is a bad idea. What if lightning strikes them both at the same time? MetricFire ensures the redundancy of data by creating three copies of everything automatically.
Long-Term Data Storage
Historical monitoring data from any source may be of little relevance compared to a more recent set of data, but that doesn’t make it useless. It still has relevance in accrediting a potential performance issue with the app.
Simply deleting a set of monitoring data once it has passed its relevance date is a bad idea, as you will likely need to access it in the future.
That’s not an issue with MetricFire, as all data is stored for at least two years.
Conclusion
Next, sign up for a MetricFire free trial and use it today. No credit card or commitment is required. You can start monitoring all of your apps on our platform within minutes. You can also book a demo and talk to the MetricFire team directly about what monitoring systems will work best for you.
