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Shilpi Saxena
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Shilpi Saxena

Shilpi Saxena is an IT professional and also a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has had exposure to various domains (machine to machine space, healthcare, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all the aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing, and delivering solutions in the Big Data space for the last 3 years; she also handles a high-performance and geographically-distributed team of elite engineers. Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the Big Data space) of experience in the development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in the products and services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats, such as developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all the flavors that the industry has to offer. She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementations in Big Data on Storm and Impala with autoscaling in AWS. Shilpi has also authored Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra (https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/learning-real-time-analytics-storm-and-cassandra) with Packt Publishing.
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Cassandra monitoring systems


Now that we have discussed the various management aspects of Cassandra, let's explore the various dashboarding and monitoring options for the Cassandra cluster. There are various free and licensed tools available that we'll discuss now.

JMX monitoring

You can use a type of monitoring for Cassandra that is based on jconsole. Here are the steps to connect to Cassandra using jconsole:

  1. In the Command Prompt, execute the jconsole command:

  2. In the next step, you have to specify the Cassandra node IP and port for connectivity:

  3. Once you are connected, JMX provides a variety of graphs and monitoring utilities:

The developers can monitor heap memory usage using the jconsole Memory tab. This will help you understand the utilization of node resources.

The limitation with jconsole is that it performs node-specific monitoring and not Cassandra-ring-based monitoring and dashboarding. Let's explore the other tools in the context.

Datastax OpsCenter

This is a datastax-provided utility...

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Shilpi Saxena

Shilpi Saxena is an IT professional and also a technology evangelist. She is an engineer who has had exposure to various domains (machine to machine space, healthcare, telecom, hiring, and manufacturing). She has experience in all the aspects of conception and execution of enterprise solutions. She has been architecting, managing, and delivering solutions in the Big Data space for the last 3 years; she also handles a high-performance and geographically-distributed team of elite engineers. Shilpi has more than 12 years (3 years in the Big Data space) of experience in the development and execution of various facets of enterprise solutions both in the products and services dimensions of the software industry. An engineer by degree and profession, she has worn varied hats, such as developer, technical leader, product owner, tech manager, and so on, and she has seen all the flavors that the industry has to offer. She has architected and worked through some of the pioneers' production implementations in Big Data on Storm and Impala with autoscaling in AWS. Shilpi has also authored Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra (https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/learning-real-time-analytics-storm-and-cassandra) with Packt Publishing.
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