Thanks Jonathan. Out of curiosity, does opscenter support some later version of cassandra that is not OSS ?
Well, the most minimal requirement is that, I want to be able to monitor for cluster health and hook this info to some alerting platform. We are AWS heavy. We just really heavily on AWS cloud watch for our metrics as of now. We prefer to not spend our time setting up additional tools if we can help it. So, if we needed a 3rd party service we would consider an APM or monitoring service that is on the cheaper side. On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > Depends what you want to monitor. I wouldn't use a lesser version of > Cassandra for OpsCenter, it doesn't give you a ton you can't get elsewhere > and it's not ever going to support OSS > 2.1, so you kind of limit yourself > to a pretty old version of Cassandra for a non-good reason. > > What else do you use for monitoring in your infra? I've used a mix of OSS > tools (nagios, statsd, graphite, ELK), and hosted solutions. The nice part > about them is that you can monitor your whole stack in a single UI not just > your database. > > On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 12:10 PM Arun Ramakrishnan < > sinchronized.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> What are the options for a very small and nimble startup to do keep a >> cassandra cluster running well oiled. We are on AWS. We are interested in a >> monitoring tool and potentially also cluster management tools. >> >> We are currently on apache cassandra 3.7. We were hoping the datastax >> opscenter would be it (It is free for startups our size). But, looks like >> it does not support cassandra versions greater than v2.1. It is pretty >> surprising considering cassandra v2.1 came out in 2014. >> >> We would consider downgrading to datastax cassandra 2.1 just to have >> robust monitoring tools. But, I am not sure if having opscenter offsets all >> the improvements that have been added to cassandra since 2.1. >> >> Sematext has a integrations for monitoring cassandra. Does anyone have >> good experience with it ? >> >> How much work would be involved to setup Ganglia or some such option for >> cassandra ? >> >> Thanks, >> Arun >> >> >> >> >> >> >>
