Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-09-08 Thread Ariel Weisberg
, add >>>> in the prevelance of HT and you see a lot of 24+ flush writer >>>> systems in the wild) >>>> >>>> No disrespect intended but that default hasn't worked out well at >>>> all in my exposure to it, and 0.6 has never been worse than t

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-09-08 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
posure to it, and 0.6 has never been worse than the default yet. >>> Obviously write patterns, heap configuration, memtable size limits and what >>> not affect the exact optimal setting and I've rarely had it end up 0.6 >>> after a tuning exercise. I never intended that as a bl

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-09-01 Thread Thomas Julian
tion, just a starting one. _ From: Benedict Elliott Smith bened...@apache.org Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics To: user@cassandra.apache.org The default when I wrote it was 0.4 but it

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-29 Thread Ryan Svihla
t Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics To: <user@cassandra.apache.org> The default when I wrote it was 0.4 but it was found this did not saturate flush writers in JBOD configurat

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-27 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
as a blanket recommendation, > just a starting one. > > _ > From: Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','bened...@apache.org');>> > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:40 AM > Subject: Re: Guidelines for configuring Thres

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-27 Thread Ryan Svihla
rarely had it end up 0.6 after a tuning exercise. I never intended that as a blanket recommendation, just a starting one. _ From: Benedict Elliott Smith <bened...@apache.org> Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Guidelines for confi

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-26 Thread Benedict Elliott Smith
The default when I wrote it was 0.4 but it was found this did not saturate flush writers in JBOD configurations. Iirc it now defaults to 1/(1+#disks) which is not a terrible default, but obviously comes out much lower if you have many disks. This smaller value behaves better for peak performance,

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-26 Thread Ryan Svihla
Forgot the most important thing. LogsERROR you should investigateWARN you should have a list of known ones. Use case dependent. Ideally you change configuration accordingly.*PoolCleaner (slab or native) - good indication node is tuned badly if you see a ton of this. Set

Re: Guidelines for configuring Thresholds for Cassandra metrics

2016-08-26 Thread Ryan Svihla
Thomas, Not all metrics are KPIs and are only useful when researching a specific issue or after a use case specific threshold has been set. The main "canaries" I monitor are:* Pending compactions (dependent on the compaction strategy chosen but 1000 is a sign of severe issues in all cases)*