My team ended up with Diamond / StatsD / Graphite / Grafana (more background in medium.com/@mlowicki/alternatives-to-datastax-opscenter-8ad893efe063). We're relying on such stack heavily in other projects and our infra in general.
On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 10:29 PM, Jonathan Haddad <j...@jonhaddad.com> wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >> -- BR, Michał Łowicki
