You're about to walk down an unfortunate path. I strongly recommend getting the information you need for monitoring using JMX. That's actually how nodetool gets all it's information. Instead of parsing output, if you use JMX, you'll have access to a *ton* of useful (and some not so useful) information.
If you aren't familiar, run Cassandra locally and type "jconsole" in your terminal. That'll bring up a decent GUI that you can use to browse all the available metrics. You can export metrics a bunch of ways. Jolokia, mx4j, jmx_exporter (for prometheus), and I know there's a collectd plugin but I haven't used it, might be worth checking out or maybe someone else can weigh in. Jon On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 7:48 AM Xiaolei Li <xiao...@sumologic.com> wrote: > I'm planning to run "nodetool status -r" on every node every minute, > storing the output in a file, and aggregating it somewhere else for > monitoring. > > Is that a good idea? How expensive is it to be running status every > minute. > > Best, > x. >
