Monitor Cassandra Cluster running on windows server.

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The following question addressed monitoring a Cassandra cluster running on Linux.

Best Practice for monitoring an external Linux Cassandra node - DataMiner Dojo

Is there a similar connector for monitoring a Cassandra node/cluster running on Windows OS?

Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 25th January 2023

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Hi Randy,

The same connector can be used to monitor a Cassandra(Cluster) on Windows. Do note that some tables won't be available since we can only request it from Cassandra 4.0 onwards

Randy Ulvenes [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 23rd January 2023
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Hi Randy,

As Jens indicated the Apache Cassandra Cluster Monitor connector can be used to monitor also Cassandra systems below 4.0. The connector only makes use of a connection through CQL at the moment. This means you will only start to see great value in it from Cassandra 4.0 as there we have the virtual tables. In the virtual tables we get information such as disk usage, latencies, tombstone stats, ...

As Cassandra 4.0 is not supported on Windows I would highly recommend to also use the Microsoft Platform connector. This will allow you to monitor the CPU and memory usage of the Cassandra service/process. Also, page file usage might be important to trend/monitor.

Michiel Saelen [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 25th January 2023