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March 2021

10 Best Cisco Switch Monitoring Tools for 2021

Network monitoring is critical to ensuring a business stays secure. Switches are crucial to the proper functioning of that network. Hence, continue reading about the ten best Cisco switch monitoring tools. Switches connect networks and serve as controllers that let organizations share resources and talk to each other for better productivity. Without them, organizations face crippled information sharing and resource allocation, not to mention unnecessary costs.

Network monitoring with Hosted Graphite

Network monitoring is the process of looking after your network with the help of various tools and techniques. These tools that are often called network monitoring systems constantly track various aspects concerning your network, such as bandwidth usage, traffic, etc. This tracking is important in case of outages as these systems notify the network administrator immediately. Moreover, network monitoring systems are essential for status updates so that you can improve your system’s efficiency.

What Are Microservice Architectures?

In this article, we are going to look at Microservice architectures, their benefits, what makes them different from traditional monolithic architectures, and how to go about setting up monitoring and alerting for them. MetricFire is a Hosted Graphite, Grafana, and Prometheus service, where we help you set up and manage these open-source tools. If you would like to follow the steps in this blog, make sure to sign up for MetricFire's free trial and even book a demo session.

Cisco Network Monitoring: 6 Best Practices

It's often said that your network is the "backbone" of your IT infrastructure, underlying every other part of your enterprise IT. If your Cisco network infrastructure goes down or is experiencing performance issues, it's crucial that you have a real-time solution to identify and resolve the problem as soon as possible. But what does such a solution look like when it comes to Cisco networks?

10 Best Tools for Monitoring Wireless Access Points

Monitoring wireless access points is business-critical, allowing teams to facilitate day-to-day workflows. These wireless access points (APs or WAPs) provide strong Wi-Fi signals and transmission ranges for sending and receiving valued information. But wireless access points are susceptible to cyberattacks that jeopardize your revenue and reputation.

How to Monitor Network Traffic: Best Tips for IT Pros

What if I told you that monitoring network traffic is a lot less daunting than it actually seems? I think I have your attention. As a network has various moving parts, understanding it all can be a serious challenge. If something breaks or a component stops working correctly, implementing a quick troubleshooting process is essential. If you can't fix the issue right away, this could be detrimental for your end users, leading to more severe complications.

Architecture and Monitoring Apache ActiveMQ with Grafana

In this article, we are going to look at the architecture of Apache ActiveMQ and how to monitor critical metrics of ActiveMQ using Hosted Prometheus and Hosted Grafana. If you would like to follow the steps in this blog, make sure to sign up for the MetricFire free trial. You can use Graphite and Grafana directly from our platform. MetricFire is a Hosted Graphite, Grafana and Prometheus service, where we do the setup and management of these open-source tools so you don’t have to.

What is Grafana?

Today, almost every application stack would usually consist of a number of different applications, each performing a specific role and working together towards a common goal. This is the case whether it be that of a fortune 500 company or a computer science student trying to complete a tech project. As such, the stability and reliability of your infrastructure would greatly depend on the performance of each application within that infrastructure.

How to Monitor Cloud Server Performance with Graphite

Dive into the article to learn how to monitor cloud server performance with Graphite and get started on your monitoring needs! Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is a crucial part of the technological era. It refers to a methodological approach towards maintaining and sustaining a system’s health. It is extremely important to monitor an application’s health and performance upon launch, and then regularly afterwards.

Sample Approaches of Hybrid Cloud Monitoring Models

While cloud is seen as the go-to environment for modernizing IT strategies, many security-conscious businesses are still hesitant to adopt a full cloud strategy. A logical middle ground has now emerged: the hybrid cloud. Hybrid cloud promotes the coupling of on-premises infrastructures with one or more public cloud services to meet both cost optimization and security compliancy. Despite its benefits, hybrid cloud computing can present technical and management challenges.

Use Grafana to Monitor Flask apps with Prometheus

Flask is a widely used Python framework for building simple web applications, as well as being popular for REST APIs. If your Flask application has a lot of requests and is sensitive to request delays, it is essential to keep track of its metrics. Monitoring Flask with Prometheus is the perfect tool for this. When used in combination with Grafana, it can help make your app’s metrics easier to understand.

How Grafana and Prometheus work together

Let us get an insight on how Grafana and Prometheus work together for monitoring metrics. Application monitoring is a crucial feature for any successful software offering. Application monitoring in its simplest form refers to collecting metrics on an application and using those metrics to gain an insight to improve the performance and efficiency of the application. Think of it as a cycle. Grafana and Prometheus are probably the most prominent tools in the application monitoring and analytics space.

How hard is it to run your own Graphite?

How hard is it to run your own Graphite? Here’s one story of what someone had to go through! In this article, I want to share my story about what I went through to run my own Graphite and give some advice on how much you should be prepared both mentally and technically... ESPECIALLY if you are not a Graphite expert.

How to monitor AWS Lambda

How do we get started on monitoring AWS Lambda? Let me first introduce you to the term serverless computing. It doesn't matter if you have been in the tech industry only a few months, or you started writing code when Pascal was still considered cutting edge, you probably would have heard the term serverless computing thrown around in recent times. But what exactly is serverless computing?