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Monitor DigitalOcean in Grafana with MetricFire

Monitoring your DigitalOcean infrastructure just got easier. MetricFire now integrates natively with DigitalOcean, so you can connect your account and start streaming metrics from Droplets, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, and more directly into Grafana. No agents. No setup overhead. No dashboard stitching. Get full visibility into your DigitalOcean infrastructure from one dashboard, live in minutes.

Reduce Alert Fatigue with Composite Alerting in Hosted Graphite | Tutorial

Tired of noisy alerts waking you up for issues that are not actually impacting your services? In this tutorial, we walk through MetricFire's Composite Alerting capabilities and show how to combine multiple metric conditions into a single high-confidence alert using AND / OR logic. Learn how to: Reduce alert fatigue and false positives Create service level alerts in Graphite Combine CPU, latency, and database metrics into meaningful alerts Use conditional logic to improve signal quality Build smarter observability workflows with Hosted Graphite.

How to Use MetricFire Logging: Visualize Logs & Metrics Together in Grafana

Want full visibility into your systems? In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to use Grafana Loki with Promtail on Hosted Graphite by MetricFire to stream logs alongside your metrics. All visualized in Grafana dashboards. No more toggling between tools — get the full observability stack in one place.

Migrating from Librato to Hosted Graphite on Heroku - Full Tutorial

Librato on Heroku is being sunsetted, so what's next? In this tutorial, we walk through: Why Hosted Graphite by MetricFire is the best upgrade from Librato on Heroku Step-by-step migration: move your Heroku dyno, router, Postgres, Redis & custom metrics into Hosted Graphite A side-by-side comparison: metrics ingestion, dashboards, alerts, and integrations.

See System Logs Alongside your Metrics Using Loki, Grafana, and Graphite

In this quick demo, we show how you can transform logs collected by Grafana Loki into actionable Graphite metrics using MetricFire. Watch as we convert structured logs into performance insights. Perfect for teams looking to bridge the gap between logging and monitoring. This workflow helps you move beyond basic log storage and turn raw logs into meaningful metrics for alerts, dashboards, and capacity planning.

Sneak Peek: MetricFire's New Logging Tool for Scalable, Open-Source Observability

Take a first look at MetricFire’s brand-new logging tool — designed to simplify log ingestion, storage, and visualization using open-source components like Loki, Python, Telegraf and Grok. Collect logs, search across services, and correlate them with your metrics — all inside your existing Hosted Graphite environment. Whether you're an SRE, DevOps engineer, or running logs on a budget, this sneak peek reveals how MetricFire is evolving toward full observability.

Mastering MetricFire's Hosted Graphite CLI | Step-by-Step Tutorial

Learn how to efficiently use MetricFire’s Hosted Graphite CLI to manage your monitoring setup like a pro! In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through: Installing and setting up the CLI Sending and querying metrics with ease Managing dashboards and alerts from the command line Pro tips for automation and efficiency Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer looking to streamline your monitoring workflow, this video will help you get started quickly.

MetricFire's CLI Tool: Easy Monitoring & Automation!

Looking for a powerful way to send and visualise metrics from the command line? Meet HG CLI, MetricFire’s official command-line tool! In this video, we’ll show you how to install, configure, and use HG CLI to manage your Hosted Graphite metrics and create dashboards, all without having to configure an agent yourself. Whether you're a DevOps engineer, SRE, or developer, this tool will streamline your monitoring workflows! Don't forget to like, subscribe, and hit the bell for more MetricFire insights!