Installing the Hosted Graphite Heroku Monitoring & Dashboards Add-on.

Installing the HG Heroku Monitoring & Dashboards Add-on

Hosted Graphite has a Heroku Add-On for application monitoring! You can install the add-on in a single-click, and performance statistics from your Heroku app logs will be forwarded to a Graphite storage backend to be used for visualizations and alerts. This is what the Heroku auto dashboard looks like in hosted Grafana, which comes standard with every HG account:

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Configuring the Heroku Hosted Graphite Add-On

Hosted Graphite is a robust data storage backend that allows you to build custom dashboards and alerts from your data. Hosted Graphite manages a service that parses through your Heroku log-drain output, converts the data to the Graphite format, and forwards them to your Hosted Graphite account. You can then use these Graphite metrics to build custom dashboards and alerts. Additionally, you can store more than just Heroku metrics which can give you visibility into multiple layers of your infrastructure under a single pane of glass.

Heroku has an add-on for Hosted Graphite that can easily be enabled through the Heroku UI, or from a similar command from within the Heroku CLI:

heroku addons:add hostedgraphite -a <app-name>

Once the Hosted Graphite add-on is provisioned (default plan is Intro), you can navigate to your account from within the Heroku UI:

Install the Heroku Hosted Graphite add-on in your Heroku App and 4 Heroku dashboards will automatically be created in your account.

Heroku app performance metrics will appear in your Hosted Graphite account within minutes, and you can click on one of the dashboards to visualize them in Hosted Grafana:

If you want to learn more about how to use this add-on with your Heroku app book a demo with one of our engineers, otherwise, see the HG Heroku documentation HERE.

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