Apache Cassandra
Automatically and intelligently observe, analyze and optimize how your the usage, health and performance of your database.
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Dynatrace automatically detects all applications and microservices deployed in your system and how it uses your database. It provides automatic end-to-end tracing down to a single database statement, database server metrics and log insights. Dynatrace visualizes application to database dependencies for SQL and noSQL databases as well as for cloud databases and self-hosted databases. It also diagnoses anomalies in real-time using AI and pinpoints the root cause down to the slow performing or erroneous SQL statements. Deep code-level insights combined with cloud-native database server monitoring will help you maintain a robust production environment.
use cases
- Understand all dependencies of your applications to the database, which database statements are executed and their performance.
- Improve the performance of your application by reducing or optimizing typical database patterns like the 1+N query problem
- Understand the resource impact that your applications have on your database.
- Understand the impact of resource shortages, locks or other database issues have on your application by observing the database server itself.
Get started
Get started for Apache Cassandra database clients:
If your client application runs on a virtual machine or bare-metal, install OneAgent on it to get started.
If your client application runs as a workload in Kubernetes or OpenShift, set up Dynatrace on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
Activate the following OneAgent features to get tracing insight:
- Java CQL
- Java Datastax Cql
- Go CQL (gocql/gocql)
Activate log monitoring to get log insight.
Get started for Apache Cassandra database servers:
If your database server runs on a virtual machine or bare-metal, install OneAgent on it to get started.
Activate the Cassandra JMX extension to get insight into database server's health and performance combined with metrics and events. Click on Add to envrionment.
Activate log monitoring to get full log insight.
Extension
The Apache Cassandra JMX server monitoring extension in Dynatrace provides information about database exceptions, failed requests, performance, and more. If Cassandra is underperforming or a problem occurs, Dynatrace lets you know immediately and shows you which nodes are affected.
This is a JMX (Java Management Extension) Dynatrace extension. JMX is ideal for monitoring applications built using Java.
Click on Add to environment to get started.
Prerequisites
- Cassandra 2.xx
- Windows or Linux
- Non-containerized environment
Output
The dashboard Cassandra JMX Overview will be included in the extension. From there, you can navigate to the list of all the entities Cassandra instances created by the extension. Each individual entity will have its own screen to view its metrics and navigate to the related process.
Additionally, all metrics captured by the extension will be appended to the process group instance unified analysis screen in three new sections: JMX Exception Metrics, JMX Usage Metrics and JMX ThreadPool Metrics. Make sure to be on the new screen for process group instances to see them.
All metrics can also be viewed with the data explorer.
Licensing Consumption
The extension consumes DDU Units. However, they are elgible for the free tier included with every host. The amount of DDUs units depends on the number of instances monitored.
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Keywords
- database
- noSQL
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