Re: Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-06 Thread aaron morton
> Is there a specific metric you can recommend? the not entirely correct but very lightweight approach would be to look at the size of the HintsColumnFamily in the system KS. If you want an exact number use the functions on the HH MBean https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/trunk/src/java/

Re: Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-05 Thread Venkat Rama
Is there a specific metric you can recommend? VR On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Mohit Anchlia wrote: > Cassandra exposes lot of metrics through Jconsole. You might be able to > get some information from Jconsole. > > > On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Venkat Rama wrote: > >> Thanks for the quick

Re: Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-05 Thread Mohit Anchlia
Cassandra exposes lot of metrics through Jconsole. You might be able to get some information from Jconsole. On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Venkat Rama wrote: > Thanks for the quick reply, Mohit.Can we measure/monitor the size of > Hinted Handoffs? Would it be a good enough indicator of my b

Re: Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-05 Thread Venkat Rama
Thanks for the quick reply, Mohit.Can we measure/monitor the size of Hinted Handoffs? Would it be a good enough indicator of my back log? Although we know when a network is flaky, we are interested in knowing how much data is piling up in local DC that needs to be transferred. Greatly apprec

Re: Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-05 Thread Mohit Anchlia
As far as I know Cassandra doesn't use internal queueing mechanism specific to replication. Cassandra sends the write the remote DC and after that it's upto the tcp/ip stack to deal with buffering. If requests starts to timeout Cassandra would use HH upto certain time. For longer outage you would h

Monitoring replication lag/latency in multi DC setup

2012-09-05 Thread Venkat Rama
Hi, We have multi DC Cassandra ring with 2 DCs setup. We use LOCAL_QUORUM for writes and reads. The network we have seen between the DC is sometimes flaky lasting few minutes to few 10 of minutes. I wanted to know what is the best way to measure/monitor either the lag or replication latency be