Hello, I haven't found any good documentation to refer to, but you can have a look at the following: https://github.com/apache/cassandra-sidecar https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=95652224
The sidecar is deployed alongside the Cassandra node and exposes metrics/commands via HTTP/REST. This is what it look like: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/download/attachments/247827919/SBW%20OSS%20SBR.jpg?version=1&modificationDate=1681166031000&api=v2 On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 at 19:00, Angelo Polo <language.de...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks Max, that's a good option to know about. > > Unfortunately I have a fairly strict requirement for an agentless > architecture. It's possible to have some values set in cassandra-env for > example, but I can't say "download and install this jar here" (Jalokia agent > mode) or "run this code from here" (Jalokia proxy mode - Jalokia would still > be using JMX over RMI I assume, but the proxy shields my application from > having to make RMI calls directly). > > Is JMX over RMI the only out-of-the-box way to communicate remotely with > Cassandra's MBean server? > > Best, > Angelo > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2023 at 11:49 PM Max Campos <mc_cassand...@core43.com> wrote: >> >> We use Jolokia. It runs inside of Cassandra and then gives you an HTTP REST >> interface to interact with JMX. Works great for us! >> >> https://jolokia.org/ >> >> - Max >> >> On Jul 18, 2023, at 8:11 pm, Angelo Polo <language.de...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Is it possible to connect to the Cassandra JMX server without using the RMI >> protocol? >> >> I have found for example, this open source project >> https://github.com/willemsrb/simple-jmx that claims to provide JMX without >> RMI, but it seems to need to be set up on the server side too, and of course >> Cassandra's JMX server isn't based on this project. >> >> So is there a client-side-only possibility to use something other than RMI >> when retrieving Cassandra JMX? >> >> Thanks, >> Angelo >> >>
