Introduction to OpsCenter¶

At the top of every functional area of OpsCenter, you can access these functions:

• Create Cluster: create a cluster.
• Add a cluster: add clusters to OpsCenter to monitor. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Feedback: an online form that sends your evaluation of OpsCenter or any comments to us.
• Report: information about clusters that OpsCenter manages in PDF format.

OpsCenter is divided into these main functional areas:

• Overview - Survey each cluster's Dashboard in this condensed view. Displayed when multiple clusters are present.
• Dashboard - View graphs of the most commonly watched Cassandra performance metrics.
• Software update notification - be notified when an upgrade to OpsCenter or Cassandra or DSE on any of your clusters is available. The actual upgrade processes will be manual. When a new version is available a link at the top of the Dashboard appears. Clicking on it displays a dialog with a link to the new version of the software.
• Cluster: see your cluster from different perspectives and perform certain maintenance operations on cluster nodes.
• Cluster administration: add, modify, or remove a cluster from OpsCenter. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Performance: monitor a number of Cassandra cluster performance metrics. Real-time and historical performance metrics are available at different granularities: cluster-wide, per node, or per column family.
• Alerts: configure alert thresholds for a number of Cassandra cluster-wide, column family, and operating system metrics. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Scehma: create and manage keyspaces and the column families within them.
• Data backups - visually take, schedule, and manage backups across all registered clusters. Restore to clusters from backups. Available in OpsCenter Enterprise Edition only.
• Data Explorer: browse through column family data.
• Event Log: view the most recent OpsCenter log events, such as OpsCenter startup and shutdown.