Hosted Graphite Blog

If you’re a fan of Geckoboard, you’ll now find Hosted Graphite listed on their widgets! This dashboard widget lets you use our access keys feature to connect your metrics to Geckoboard.  Thanks to the Geckoboard team for making this type of integration super-simple.

http://www.geckoboard.com/new-desk-com-airbrake-teamcity-hosted-graphite-zendesk-and-updated-jira-widgets/

The Hosted Graphite team are taking a trip to Boston for Monitorama on March 28th and 29th at the Microsoft NERD centre. Come say hello and talk DevOps with us!

(After that we’re in New York for a few days - We like beer and good food, if you do too get in touch.)

We’re continuing our mission to make it really easy to get stats into Graphite from as many app providers as possible. AppHarbor is the premiere application platform for .NET, letting you grow and scale .NET applications in the cloud - and now we’re adding on the ability to instrument your Appharbor apps with Graphite.

See their blog post here: http://blog.appharbor.com/2013/02/22/hosted-graphite-now-in-add-on-catalog

After a few months of beta, the Hosted Graphite plugin for Heroku is fully live. Get Some!

Thanks to all the early testers, you rule.

Etsy’s StatsD aggregator for Graphite is one the most popular additions to any Graphite install, and it’s no surprise that it’s one of our most requested features. While we already have a backend plugin for StatsD, a lot of people don’t want to run the service themselves.  - so it makes sense for us to do it.

Our hosted StatsD service is currently in beta and we have several customers testing it at the moment. Once released publicly it will be available on the Medium plans and above at no additional cost, and customers on smaller plans will be able to add it to their account for a small additional fee. If you’re an existing customer, let us know if you’d like to get on the beta list. If you’re not an existing customer, why not? Check out our free trial!

Our goal at Hosted Graphite is to make it as easy as possible for people to store, graph, and share monitoring data. We’ve been busy adding features to make it super simple for teams to use Graphite to monitor their systems. After a long beta test with some of our users, we’re finally ready to introduce them to the world.

Account sharing - This feature allows a user to share their account with another user without having to hand over passwords. Perfect for running Graphite on a large-screen office display or quick troubleshooting with a colleague.  This is available on our medium+ plans.

Access Keys - This allows external Graphite plugins such as Tasseo, Seyren, Graphiti or similar to get access to the data in Hosted Graphite. This feature creates an URL that gives these plugins read-only access to your underlying graphite data. Optionally, you can add in a list of IP addresses to limit access to a trusted whitelist.

We’re only getting started - lots more simple ways to store, graph, and share data coming soon.

We’ve been hard at work putting together our integrations with different providers and tool sets, and today we’re pleased to announce that Hosted Graphite is now available in the AppFog partner Ecosystem!

AppFog’s Paas supports Java, Python, Node, Ruby and PHP as well as lots of other useful technical tools. With Hosted Graphite, AppFog customers now have a scalable metrics collector for you to track, analyze and visualize your performance data. All the goodness of scalable Graphite metrics with the convenience of a multi-language platform-as-a-service!

Read AppFog’s announcement here.

Our addition to github-services has been successfully merged into the main branch! If you visit your favorite github repo and select the “admin” tab, you’ll see an option for Service Hooks. Within this, you’ll find a place to add your Hosted Graphite API Key. Once you do this, you’ll see that Graphite tracks a metric on the commits pushed to your repository - A great way to see the pace of your development.

Hosted Graphite is now available as an add-on for cloudControl users. Whether you’re using Java, PHP, Python or Ruby we’re happy to make sure you can get the best performance data out of your app.

Check out our addon in the cloudControl marketplace at https://www.cloudcontrol.com/add-ons/hostedgraphite - It’s free during the Beta period.

We’re pleased to announce that the Hosted Graphite add-on is now available in the Heroku marketplace as a private beta test. We’re working hard to make Hosted Graphite the easiest way to get metrics data out of your application and on to actionable dashboards, and easy integration with Heroku is one of our first steps.

Check it out, we’d love to hear what you think.