To integrate Juniper SRX Monitoring 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.

Want fast visibility into SRX performance and interfaces? The quickest path is Telegraf + SNMP sending metrics to your Hosted Graphite account—so you can ship data once and get dashboards and alerts immediately. Follow our SRX walkthrough below or jump straight to the step-by-step Telegraf guide.

MetricFire is a cloud monitoring platform that offers comprehensive monitoring and alerting services for various IT infrastructure components, including Juniper SRX firewalls. The integration enables network administrators to monitor their firewall's health, performance, and security in real-time, as well as receive alerts and notifications when critical events occur.

To integrate Juniper SRX with MetricFire, you can follow these simple steps:

• Create an account on MetricFire's platform: To get started, sign up for an account on MetricFire's website. Once you have created your account, you will have access to the MetricFire dashboard, which is where you can set up your Juniper SRX integration.

• Configure Juniper SRX: To monitor Juniper SRX devices, you need to configure SNMP on the firewall. This involves setting up SNMP communities and defining the parameters that you want to monitor, such as CPU usage, memory usage, interface traffic, and other relevant metrics.
  
  

• What you can monitor (common SRX metrics)
  • Health & resources: CPU, memory, uptime
  • Interfaces: status, speed, errors, octets, packets
  • System & SNMP: sysUpTime, hrSystemUptime

• Add Juniper SRX to MetricFire: Once you have configured SNMP on your Juniper SRX device, you can add it to your MetricFire account. 

• Set up Telegraf + SNMP for SRX

  • “Telegraf is a lightweight agent that pulls SRX SNMP metrics and forwards them to Hosted Graphite.

    • Step 1 — Install Telegraf

    • Step 2 — Configure Graphite output (servers = ["carbon.hostedgraphite.com:2003"], prefix = "<API_KEY>.telegraf")

    • Step 3 — Enable SNMP input ([[inputs.snmp]] agents = ["udp://<SRX-IP>:161"])

    • Step 4 — Select fields (IF-MIB counters, sysUpTime, etc.)

• Configure MetricFire's monitoring services: After adding Juniper SRX to MetricFire, you can start configuring the monitoring services that you want to use. MetricFire offers a range of services, such as real-time monitoring, log analysis, anomaly detection, and more. You can set up alerts and notifications based on specific thresholds or events, ensuring that you are always aware of critical issues that could impact your network.

FAQs

1. What’s the quickest way to monitor Juniper SRX with MetricFire?
   A. Install Telegraf, enable the SNMP input, and configure the Graphite output to Hosted Graphite. You’ll then build dashboards and alerts in Hosted Grafana.
2. Which SRX metrics should I start with?
   A. CPU, memory, device uptime, and IF-MIB interface counters (status, octets, errors, packets) cover health and bandwidth quickly.
3. Do I need changes on the firewall?
   A. Yes—ensure SNMP is enabled and reachable, with the right community (v2c) or credentials (v3). Then point Telegraf at the SRX IP on UDP/161.
4. Can I use SNMPv3 with Telegraf?
   A. Yes. Telegraf’s SNMP input supports v2c and v3; configure your v3 auth/privacy settings in telegraf.conf. (Implementation details are in the guide.)
5. How do I alert on link down or high errors?
   A. Send SNMP interface metrics to Hosted Graphite and create thresholds in the alerting UI (e.g., ifOperStatus==down or error rate above X).

By integrating Juniper SRX with MetricFire, you can gain visibility into your firewall's performance and security, as well as monitor for potential threats and attacks. MetricFire's comprehensive monitoring and alerting services can help you quickly identify and resolve issues, ensuring that your network is always running smoothly and securely.

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.