Changelog
Monthly updates to Hosted Graphite by MetricFire - customer facing features and services
November 2025
Added a Process Aggregate feature to the Heroku integration, to combine individual process metrics into single data sets.
Updated the default Heroku dashboard to display Heroku Process metrics (scheduler, release, run, worker).
October 2025
Added a Host Aggregate feature to our Heroku integration, that will combine values from all host (subdomain) metrics into a single data set.
Updated the internal version of Graphite-Web to include more recent Graphite functions.
September 2025
Researched and tested a method for GPU performance monitoring, using the DCGM Exporter tool.
August 2025
Increased/optimized disk storage capacity on all K8 nodes in our Hosted Grafana environment, for faster user performance.
July 2025
Deployed a beta version of the new logging integration to production (Hosted Loki), contact us for more details.
June 2025
Upgraded Kubernetes to the latest version in our Hosted Grafana environment, for optimized node performance.
May 2025
Building out a new logging integration using open-source tools. See the MF Logging page for more details, and to register your interest for this new feature: https://www.metricfire.com/logging/
April 2025
Released V2 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
March 2025
Released the first stable version of our HG-CLI Tool, 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 collect Java application metrics
February 2025
Released a Graphite method for using the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib as an Agent
Published content around using OpenTelemetry Receivers to collect metrics from NGINX, Aerospike, Snowflake, and OracleDB EX
January 2025
Pushed an update that enables Annotations to accept non-Latin characters
Updated HG Statuspage, 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 "$(curl -s 'https://www.hostedgraphite.com/demos/cli_system_collector/?user=guest')"
Updated methods for integrating Apache Spark with Graphite
November 2024
Optimized onboarding flow for HG accounts created through our Heroku Add-On
Updated methods for converting Prometheus data ⇒ Graphite
October 2024
Continuing to decommission the old Grafana v7 environment for all accounts - please reach out to support if you would like a force-redirect rule from v7 to v9
Added the AWS/NetworkELB service to our Cloudwatch Add-On
September 2024
Deployed a new Heroku Router Aggregates feature - to combine values of high-cardinality Heroku Path metrics
Upgraded the AWS/SNS integration to include more metric dimensions
August 2024
Added a Kubernetes integration as a telegraf-daemonset which can be easily deployed into your k8 clusters. This will collect/forward metrics that can be visualized on a Kubernetes Overview dashboard located in our Dashboard Library
All accounts now have active Grafana v9.5 instances, and you can reach out to our support to request a different version
July 2024
Added a CLI Demo onboarding tool - for sending sample data that van be viewed in the Welcome to HG dashboard in our Dashboard Library:
bash -c "$(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
Added a Tag Expiry feature, for managing stale tagged metrics
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
Added a Welcome Dashboard to the Dashboard Library, for a smoother onboarding experience
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
Updated methods for SNMP device performance monitoring - using the Telegraf agent
March 2024
Began development work for hosted stock Grafana in Kubernetes
Updated methods for ELK stack performance monitoring - using the Telegraf agent
Tagged Metric backend service cleanup and optimisation
February 2024
New Heroku Router Path Metrics option for higher visibility into connections/methods/statuses per path in a Heroku app
Deployed new GitLab and Cloudbees webhook integrations
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
Dashboard Library updated with the Heroku Kafka dashboard
Backend services cleanup, consolidation, and optimisation
December 2023
Released a GCP Add-On integration. This feature allows the forwarding of metrics from specified GCP services.
Released the Heroku Redis integration which forwards metrics from your Heroku Redis Add-On
Dashboard Library updated with GCP Overview dashboard and Heroku Redis dashboard
October 2023
Released the Microsoft Azure Add-On, which syncs the metrics from specified Azure resources into your account.
Dashboard library updated with AWS/Azure Overview dashboards
Busy Metric Ratelimited feature released an viewable in Account Diagnostics
Added AWS ECS Container Insights service to our Cloudwatch Add-On
September 2023
Deployed Dashboard Library v2 and optimized current dashboard list
Added new pre-made dashboards for Telegraf and Sitespeed
Invalid Metric Tracking feature released and viewable in Account Diagnostics UI
August 2023
MetricFire Homepage localised into Japanese, Korean and Portuguese
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
Greater integration with Sitespeed.io Site Performance Insights
Improvements made around annotation issues
A+ security header score for hostedgraphite.com and metricfire.com domains
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
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