Monitoring On-Premise Meraki with MetricFire

To integrate On-Premise Meraki 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.

In today's fast-paced digital landscape, network administrators and IT teams face the critical task of managing and monitoring their network infrastructure efficiently. A key component of this endeavor involves leveraging comprehensive monitoring and analysis tools to ensure network reliability, security, and optimal performance. One such powerful combination is the integration between MetricFire and on-premises Meraki network equipment.

MetricFire is a leading cloud monitoring and observability platform designed to provide insights into various aspects of an organization's infrastructure. By collecting, analyzing, and visualizing data from different sources, MetricFire empowers IT teams to make informed decisions and address potential issues before they escalate.

Meraki, on the other hand, is a renowned provider of cloud-managed IT solutions, including networking, security, and application performance. Their portfolio encompasses a range of networking devices such as routers, switches, access points, and security appliances. These devices are widely used in on-premises environments to establish and manage robust network architectures.

The integration of MetricFire with on-premises Meraki equipment brings a multitude of advantages that bolster network management and monitoring capabilities:

• MetricFire gathers data from Meraki devices and provides a holistic view of network performance, bandwidth utilization, device health, and more. This visibility enables administrators to detect anomalies, pinpoint bottlenecks, and optimize network resources effectively.

• MetricFire delivers real-time insights into the status and behavior of Meraki devices. With instant alerts and notifications, IT teams can proactively address issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring a seamless user experience.

• MetricFire enables the creation of customized dashboards tailored to the organization's specific needs. This feature facilitates the display of relevant metrics and KPIs, simplifying data interpretation and facilitating data-driven decision-making.

• By correlating data from Meraki devices with other relevant metrics, MetricFire helps IT teams uncover hidden patterns and trends. This analysis aids in capacity planning, performance optimization, and strategic infrastructure upgrades.

• Leveraging historical data and machine learning capabilities, MetricFire can offer predictive insights into potential network issues. This empowers administrators to take proactive measures to prevent disruptions and downtime.

• Through the integration, MetricFire can monitor and analyze security-related metrics from Meraki devices. This helps in identifying and mitigating security threats promptly.

• As organizations grow and their network infrastructure expands, MetricFire's scalability ensures that monitoring and analysis remain reliable and efficient even in complex environments.

The process of integrating MetricFire with on-premises Meraki equipment typically involves the following steps:

• MetricFire connects to Meraki devices using APIs or other integration methods to collect relevant metrics and data points.

• The collected data is then analyzed, correlated, and visualized on MetricFire's dashboards, providing actionable insights to IT teams.

• Administrators can set up alerts and notifications based on predefined thresholds, ensuring timely responses to critical events.

• IT teams can create custom dashboards and reports to display the specific metrics and KPIs that align with their monitoring requirements.

• MetricFire's machine-learning capabilities can be harnessed to predict potential issues based on historical data and trends.

The integration between MetricFire and on-premises Meraki equipment offers a robust solution for organizations aiming to enhance their network monitoring and management capabilities. By combining the strengths of both platforms, IT teams can achieve greater visibility, increased efficiency, and improved overall network performance. Whether it's proactively addressing issues or optimizing resources, this integration empowers administrators to stay ahead in the dynamic world of IT infrastructure.

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.