January 2022
Intermediate to advanced
430 pages
12h 10m
English
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Cassandra: The Definitive Guide, (Revised) Third Edition, 3rd Edition
by Jeff Carpenter, Eben Hewitt
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Chapter 11. Monitoring
The term observability is often used to describe a desirable attribute of distributed systems. Observability means having visibility into the various components of a system in order to detect, predict, and perhaps even prevent the complex failures that can occur in distributed systems. Failures in individual components can affect other components in turn, and multiple failures can interact in unforeseen ways, leading to system-wide outages. Common elements of an observability strategy for a system include metrics, logging, and tracing.
In this chapter, you’ll learn how Cassandra supports these elements of observability and how to use available tools to monitor and understand important events in the life cycle of your Cassandra cluster. We’ll look at some simple ways to see what’s going on, such as changing the logging levels and understanding the output.
To begin, let’s discuss how Cassandra uses the Java Management Extensions (JMX) to expose information about its internal operations and allow the dynamic configuration of some of its behavior. That will give you a basis to learn how to monitor Cassandra with various tools.
Monitoring Cassandra with JMX
Cassandra makes use of JMX to enable remote management of your nodes. JMX started as Java Specification Request (JSR) 160 and has been a core part of Java since version 5.0. You can read more about the JMX implementation in Java by examining the java.lang.management package.
JMX is a Java API that provides ...
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