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Monitor Apache Cassandra easily with Grafana

Easily monitor your deployment of Apache Cassandra, the popular open source NoSQL distributed database, with Grafana Cloud’s out-of-the-box monitoring solution. The Grafana Cloud forever-free tier includes 3 users and up to 10k metrics series to support your monitoring needs.

Key metrics included

cassandra_cache_hitrate
cassandra_cache_size
cassandra_clientrequest_latency_seconds_count
cassandra_clientrequest_timeouts_count
cassandra_clientrequest_unavailables_count
cassandra_compaction_pendingtasks
cassandra_connection_largemessageactivetasks
cassandra_connection_largemessagedroppedtasks
cassandra_connection_largemessagependingtasks
cassandra_connection_smallmessageactivetasks
cassandra_connection_smallmessagedroppedtasks
cassandra_connection_smallmessagependingtasks
cassandra_connection_timeouts_count
cassandra_down_endpoint_count
cassandra_keyspace_caspreparelatency_seconds
cassandra_keyspace_pendingcompactions
cassandra_keyspace_readlatency_seconds
cassandra_keyspace_readlatency_seconds_average
cassandra_keyspace_readlatency_seconds_count
cassandra_keyspace_repairjobscompleted_count
cassandra_keyspace_repairjobsstarted_count
cassandra_keyspace_totaldiskspaceused
cassandra_keyspace_writelatency_seconds
cassandra_keyspace_writelatency_seconds_average
cassandra_keyspace_writelatency_seconds_count
cassandra_keyspace_writelatency_seconds_sum
cassandra_messaging_crossnodelatency_seconds
cassandra_storage_load_count
cassandra_storage_totalhints_count
cassandra_table_maxpartitionsize
cassandra_table_readlatency_seconds_count
cassandra_table_readlatency_seconds_sum
cassandra_threadpools_currentlyblockedtasks_count
cassandra_up_endpoint_count
jvm_gc_collection_count
jvm_gc_duration_seconds
jvm_memory_usage_used_bytes
jvm_physical_memory_size
jvm_process_cpu_load
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Key alerting rules included

HighReadLatency (Critical)
HighWriteLatency (Critical)
HighPendingCompactionTasks (Warning)
BlockedCompactionTasksFound (Critical)
HintsStoredOnNode (Warning)
UnavailableWriteRequestsFound (Critical)
HighCpuUsage (Critical)
HighMemoryUsage (Critical)