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Sam R. AlapatiExpert Apache Cassandra Administrationhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3126-5_10

10. Monitoring, Logging, and Metrics

Sam R. Alapati
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Flower Mound, Texas, USA
 
Monitoring Cassandra is in many ways similar to how you manage a traditional relational database. The complexity lies in the fact that Cassandra is a distributed database, so you’ll be concerning yourself also with the distribution of data and the balancing of the workload among the nodes of a cluster.
The nodetool utility offers many commands that help you monitor your cluster, and you learned many of these commands in the earlier chapters.
JConsole is a powerful monitoring tool that you can use both from the command line and as a GUI tool.
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