Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-09-11 Thread Otis Gospodnetić
Hi Vikram, Running a monitor somewhere other than on Cassandra node itself hmm then you'd miss out on JVM metrics, OS metrics, ability to do transaction tracing, on demand profiling, etc. which are all nice things to have when you are troubleshooting issues, performance, doing stress tests

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-18 Thread Ken Hancock
Off-topic to the Cassandra list, but corosync/pacemaker comes to mind for automatic service switchover between nodes. For monitoring and alerting, there's almost too many to mention... On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Vikram Kone wrote: > Hi John, > I have posted the same Q on azkaban googl

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-18 Thread Vikram Kone
Hi John, I have posted the same Q on azkaban google group but there is no response so far :( If i want to do the old school way of monitor, alert and start the process somewhere else..how can I do this? Are there some ready made tools to do this kind of general purpose monitoring and alerting for s

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-16 Thread Prem Yadav
The MySQL is there just to save the state of things. I suppose it very lightweight. Why not just install mysql on one of the nodes or a VM somewhere. On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 3:39 PM, John Wong wrote: > Sorry i meant integration with Cassandra (based on the docs by default it > suggests MySQL) >

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-16 Thread John Wong
Sorry i meant integration with Cassandra (based on the docs by default it suggests MySQL) On Sunday, August 16, 2015, John Wong wrote: > There is no leader in cassandra. I suggest you ask Azkaban community about > intgteation with Azkaban and Azkaban HA. > > On Sunday, August 16, 2015, Vikram Ko

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-16 Thread John Wong
There is no leader in cassandra. I suggest you ask Azkaban community about intgteation with Azkaban and Azkaban HA. On Sunday, August 16, 2015, Vikram Kone wrote: > Can't we use zoo keeper for leader election in Cassandra and based on who > is leader ..run azkaban or any app instance for that ma

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-16 Thread Vikram Kone
Can't we use zoo keeper for leader election in Cassandra and based on who is leader ..run azkaban or any app instance for that matter on that Cassandra server. I'm thinking that I can copy the applocation folder to all nodes and then determine which one to run using zookeeper. Is that possible ?

Re: How to run any application on Cassandra cluster in high availability mode

2015-08-16 Thread John Wong
Hi I am not familiar with Azkaban and probably a better question to the Azkaban community IMO. But there seems to be two modes ( http://azkaban.github.io/azkaban/docs/2.5/) one is solo and one is two-server mode, but either way I think still SPOF? If there is no election, just based on process, my