Monitoring Cisco CSR with MetricFire

To integrate Cisco CSR with MetricFire, please sign up for a free 14 day trial. We want to fully understand your requirements and monitoring goals, so we can advise you on how to obtain better visibility into your infrastructure. Please book a demo with us so we can show you how quick and easy it is to get meaningful data into your MetricFire account, and use that data to build custom dashboards and alerts.

Cisco CSR (Cloud Services Router) is a powerful virtual router designed to support multiple network architectures, including cloud-native, hybrid, and traditional. MetricFire is a cloud-based monitoring solution that provides real-time data analytics, alerting, and visualization for your infrastructure, applications, and services. When these two technologies are integrated, they offer a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing your network.

Integrating Cisco CSR with MetricFire provides several benefits, including:

• Real-time Monitoring: MetricFire provides real-time monitoring for your network infrastructure, allowing you to quickly detect and respond to issues. By integrating with Cisco CSR, you can monitor the performance of your virtual router and other network components.

• Customizable Dashboards: MetricFire provides customizable dashboards that allow you to visualize your data in real-time. With the integration of Cisco CSR, you can create custom dashboards that show the performance metrics of your virtual router.

• Alerting: MetricFire provides alerting capabilities that notify you when specific thresholds are breached. By integrating with Cisco CSR, you can set up alerts for the performance metrics of your virtual router and other network components.

• Historical Data: MetricFire provides historical data storage and visualization, allowing you to analyze trends and patterns over time. By integrating with Cisco CSR, you can store and analyze historical data for your virtual router and other network components.

You can easily get insights from your Cisco devices with the Telegraf plugin by downloading a custom telegraf config in your Hosted Graphite account if you navigate to Agents => Telegraf. Then install telegraf using the steps outlined in our docs, and replace the default config with the custom config at the path that telegraf is installed at.

To integrate Cisco CSR with MetricFire, follow these steps:

• Sign up for a MetricFire account and log in to the MetricFire platform.

• Create a new data source by selecting "Add Data Source" and choosing Cisco CSR from the list of available data sources.

• Follow the prompts to connect your Cisco CSR to MetricFire. You may need to provide credentials and other configuration details.

• Once your Cisco CSR is connected, you can start monitoring its performance metrics in real-time, creating custom dashboards, and setting up alerts.

Integrating Cisco CSR with MetricFire offers a powerful solution for monitoring and managing your network infrastructure. By providing real-time monitoring, customizable dashboards, alerting, and historical data analysis, this integration can help you detect and respond to issues quickly and efficiently.

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.

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.