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What is Hosted Graphite
Hosted Graphite is a hosted time-series monitoring service built around Graphite-compatible metrics ingestion and visualization. It is used by operations and engineering teams to collect application and infrastructure metrics, build dashboards, and set alerting based on metric thresholds and trends. The product emphasizes compatibility with common Graphite/StatsD-style instrumentation and provides a managed alternative to running Graphite infrastructure in-house. It is typically deployed as part of a metrics-focused monitoring stack rather than a full end-to-end observability platform.
Graphite-compatible metrics ingestion
Hosted Graphite supports Graphite-style metrics workflows, which can reduce re-instrumentation effort for teams already using Graphite/StatsD conventions. This makes it practical for collecting custom application metrics alongside infrastructure metrics. It also helps teams standardize on a familiar query and naming model when migrating from self-managed Graphite deployments.
Managed dashboards and alerting
The service provides hosted dashboards and alerting so teams can monitor key service and infrastructure indicators without operating the underlying storage and rendering components. This can lower operational overhead compared with maintaining a self-hosted Graphite cluster. Alerting on metrics supports common on-call and incident response workflows for infrastructure and service health.
Fits metrics-first monitoring use cases
Hosted Graphite is well-suited to organizations that primarily need time-series metrics monitoring and visualization rather than deep tracing or session-level debugging. It can serve as a central place to store and explore operational metrics across environments. For teams that already have separate tools for logs or traces, it can integrate as the metrics layer of a broader monitoring approach.
Limited full-stack observability breadth
Compared with broader observability suites, Hosted Graphite is primarily metrics-centric and may not cover distributed tracing, log analytics, or advanced APM workflows to the same depth. Teams seeking a single platform for metrics, logs, and traces may need additional products. This can increase toolchain complexity and require cross-tool correlation during incident investigations.
Graphite model constraints
Graphite’s hierarchical metric naming and query patterns can be less flexible than label-based approaches for high-cardinality or highly dimensional telemetry. As environments scale (for example, dynamic containerized workloads), naming conventions and metric hygiene can become harder to manage. This can affect query ergonomics and long-term maintainability of dashboards and alerts.
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Publicly verifiable, up-to-date corporate information (such as current ownership, headquarters, and official social profiles) is not consistently available from a single authoritative source. If the product has changed ownership or branding over time, buyers may need to confirm the current legal entity and support model during procurement. This uncertainty can complicate vendor risk assessment and contract due diligence.
Plan & Pricing
| Plan | Price | Key features & notes |
|---|---|---|
| Intro | $19/mo (billed monthly) or $16/mo (billed annually) | 500 Metrics, 6-month retention, 30s resolution, 2 team users, 10 alerts, Unlimited dashboards. |
| Basic | $99/mo (billed monthly) or $84/mo (billed annually) | 1,500 Metrics, 2-year retention, 30s resolution, Unlimited users, Unlimited alerts, Unlimited dashboards. |
| Core | $499/mo (billed monthly) or $429/mo (billed annually) | 5,000 Metrics, 2-year retention, 30s resolution, Unlimited users, Unlimited alerts, Unlimited dashboards. |
| Custom | Contact Sales (custom pricing) | Custom metric count, 2-year retention, 30s resolution, Unlimited users, Enterprise support/SLA available. |
Seller details
MetricFire, Inc.
San Francisco, California, United States
2012
Private
https://www.hostedgraphite.com/
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