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Monthly updates to Hosted Graphite by MetricFire - customer facing features and services

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April 2025

  • Released of the HG-CLI tool, with a 'Quick Install' method for the OpenTelemetry Collector Agent

    • curl -s "https://www.hostedgraphite.com/scripts/hg-cli/installer/" | sudo sh

  • Published content around converting syslog messages to Graphite metrics 2 ways, by using Telegraf with and

March 2025

  • Released the first stable version of our , for easy agent installation on any OS:

    • curl -s "https://www.hostedgraphite.com/scripts/hg-cli/installer/" | sudo sh

  • Published content around using OpenTelemetry Receivers to

February 2025

  • Released a Graphite method for using the

  • Published content around using OpenTelemetry Receivers to collect metrics from , , , and

January 2025

  • Pushed an update that enables Annotations to accept non-Latin characters

  • Updated our , now displaying more AWS ingestion metrics

December 2024

  • Deployed new Metrics Search UI that includes 'folder' structure and quick view graphing features

  • Deployed 'guest' CLI Demo that can be used without an active HG account: bash -c "$(curl -s 'https://www.hostedgraphite.com/demos/cli_system_collector/?user=guest')"

  • Updated methods for

November 2024

October 2024

  • Continuing to decommission the old Grafana v7 environment for all accounts - please reach out to support if you would like a force-redirect rule from v7 to v9

  • Added the AWS/NetworkELB service to our Cloudwatch Add-On

September 2024

  • Upgraded our AWS/SNS integration to include more metric dimensions

August 2024

  • All accounts now have active Grafana v9.5 instances, and you can reach out to our support to request a different version

July 2024

  • Added a CLI Demo onboarding tool - for sending sample data that van be viewed in the Welcome to HG dashboard in our Dashboard Library:

    • bash -c "$(curl -s https://www.hostedgraphite.com/demos/cli_system_collector/)"

  • Continued Grafana v9 deployments and dashboard migrations - reach out to request this upgrade

June 2024

  • Continued Grafana v9 deployments and dashboard migrations - reach out to request this upgrade

  • Optimized the Quick View metric/alert graphs for cleaner and faster data rendering

May 2024

  • Rolled out our NEW beta Grafana environment hosted on kubernetes (default version 9.5.13)

    • please reach out directly to request this early

April 2024

  • Deployed a HG home page redesign for the top and side nav bars, giving a more modern look and cleaner UI experience

  • Continued development for hosted stock Grafana in Kubernetes

March 2024

  • Began development work for hosted stock Grafana in Kubernetes

  • Tagged Metric backend service cleanup and optimisation

February 2024

  • Integrated HG landing page to use chartJS for faster graph loading on home page and Account Diagnostics page

  • API key on HG landing page now hidden by default, for increased security

January 2024

  • Backend services cleanup, consolidation, and optimisation

December 2023

October 2023

  • Added AWS ECS Container Insights service to our Cloudwatch Add-On

September 2023

  • Added new pre-made dashboards for Telegraf and Sitespeed

August 2023

  • Released the Heroku Postgres metrics integration and pre-made dashboard

  • Updated our Sitespeed integration for use with annotations

  • Hosted Graphite Agent updated to python3

  • Added the AWS Cloudwatch Logs service to our Cloudwatch Add-On

July 2023

  • Released the Microsoft Teams Alerting Notification Channel

  • Improvements made around annotation issues

  • Sentry Reconfiguration for Alerting

June 2023

  • Heroku Add-On Maintenance and migration to Heroku API V3

  • Sentry reconfiguration for improved internal alerting and response times

  • Updates to site stability and indexing

May 2023

  • Bug fixes resolving alert resolution and metric expiry feature issues

  • Backend services cleanup and optimisation

  • Improvements to Graphite Web / Query Functions

  • Deployed updates providing greater ability for users to adjust their current plan option self-service

April 2023

  • Added AWS MemoryDB Service to our Cloudwatch Add-On

  • Bug Fixes for Heroku Add-On services

  • Metric Expiry Updates and Fixes

  • ‘Limited Access Group’ feature improvements

  • Hosted Graphite Ruby Gem updated to support tagged StatsD metrics

March 2023

  • Completed a full infrastructure overhaul:

    • upgraded all backend services and dependencies to newer versions of Python and Ubuntu

    • replaced all internal servers with newer and more efficient models (NVME in most layers for faster read/write speeds)

  • Released new documentation domain and format - hosted by gitBook

Optimized onboarding flow for HG accounts created through our

Updated methods for

Deployed a new feature - to combine values of high-cardinality Heroku Path metrics

Added a Kubernetes integration as a which can be easily deployed into your k8 clusters. This will collect/forward metrics that can be visualized on a Kubernetes Overview dashboard located in our Dashboard Library

Added a feature, for managing stale tagged metrics

Added a Welcome Dashboard to our , for a smoother onboarding experience

Updated methods for - using the Telegraf agent

Updated methods for - using the Telegraf agent

New Heroku option for higher visibility into connections/methods/statuses per path in a Heroku app

Deployed new GitLab and Cloudbees webhook

Released the integration which forwards Heroku log drain metrics from your Heroku Kafka Add-On

updated with the Heroku Kafka dashboard

Released a integration. This feature allows the forwarding of metrics from specified GCP services.

Released the integration which forwards metrics from your Heroku Redis Add-On

updated with GCP Overview dashboard and Heroku Redis dashboard

Released the , which syncs the metrics from specified Azure resources into your account.

updated with AWS/Azure Overview dashboards

feature released an viewable in Account Diagnostics

Deployed and optimized current dashboard list

feature released and viewable in Account Diagnostics UI

localised into Japanese, Korean and Portuguese

Greater integration with Site Performance Insights

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