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Learning Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra

You're reading from   Learning Real-time Analytics with Storm and Cassandra Solve real-time analytics problems effectively using Storm and Cassandra

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784395490
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Let's Understand Storm FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Your First Topology 3. Understanding Storm Internals by Examples 4. Storm in a Clustered Mode 5. Storm High Availability and Failover 6. Adding NoSQL Persistence to Storm 7. Cassandra Partitioning, High Availability, and Consistency 8. Cassandra Management and Maintenance 9. Storm Management and Maintenance 10. Advance Concepts in Storm 11. Distributed Cache and CEP with Storm A. Quiz Answers Index

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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