OpsCenter going forward is limited to datastax enterprise versions. I know a lot of people like DataDog, but I haven't used it. Maybe other people on the list can speak from recent first hand experience on it's pros and cons.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 1:20 PM Arun Ramakrishnan < sinchronized.a...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >
