Using the metric retrieval methods you can retrieve performance metrics at the cluster, node, and column family levels.
| Metric Retrieval Methods | URL |
|---|---|
| Retrieve cluster-wide metrics. | GET /{cluster_id}/cluster-metrics/{dc}/{metric} |
| Retrieve cluster-wide metrics about a device. | GET /{cluster_id}/cluster-metrics/{dc}/{metric}/{device} |
| Retrieve cluster-wide metrics about a column family. | GET /{cluster_id}/cluster-metrics/{dc}/{ks_name}/{cf_name}/{metric} |
| Retrieve metrics about a node. | GET /{cluster_id}/metrics/{node_ip}/{metric} |
| Retrieve node-specific metrics about a device. | GET /{cluster_id}/metrics/{node_ip}/{metric}/{device} |
| Retrieve node-specific metrics about a column family. | GET /{cluster_id}/metrics/{node_ip}/{ks_name}/{cf_name}/{metric} |
You can choose from a large number of metric keys an option to pass with these methods, making retrieval of a wide spectrum of performance information possible.
You can also use the following query parameters with these methods to filter the output:
| Query Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| start | (optional) A timestamp in seconds indicating the beginning of a range for aggregating the metric. |
| end | (optional) A timestamp in seconds indicating the end of a range for aggregating the metric. |
| step | (optional) The resolution of the input. Valid input options are: 1, 5, 120, or 1440 minutes; corresponding output intervals are 60, 200, 7200, or 86400 seconds. |
| function | (optional) The type of aggregation to perform on the metric: min, max, or average. By default, results are returned for all three types of aggregation. |
Results of calls to retrieve metrics are returned in the following format:
{
[<node_ip>: | <device>: | <keyspace.columnfamily>:]
{
<function>:
[
[<timestamp> <value>],
...
]
}
}
By default, the output is metric data points at 60-second intervals over a 24-hour period.
Aggregate a metric across multiple nodes in the cluster rather than retrieving data about a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Returns metric data across multiple nodes in a cluster.
Example
Get the average write requests per second over to the cluster over all data centers on May 1, 2012 from 8 AM to 5 PM GMT. Show data points at 2-hour (120-minute) intervals.
curl
http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/cluster-metrics/all/write-ops
-d 'step=120'
-d 'start=1335859200'
-d 'end=1335891600'
-d 'function=average'
-G -X GET
Output:
Data points at 2-hour (7200 seconds) intervals show the number of write requests per second during business hours on May 1.
{
"Total": {
"AVERAGE": [
[
1335859200,
null
],
[
1335866400,
13.376885890960693
],
[
1335873600,
13.372154712677002
],
[
1335880800,
13.365732669830322
],
[
1335888000,
13.392115592956543
]
]
}
}
Aggregate a disk or network metric, which pertains to a specific device, across multiple nodes in the cluster rather than retrieving data about a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Examples of Device Arguments
| Example devices | Description |
|---|---|
| "network_interfaces": ["lo0", "en1"] | Devices measured by network metrics |
| "devices": {"saved_caches": "disk1", "commitlog": "disk1", "other": ["disk0"], "data": ["disk1"]} | Devices measured by disk metrics |
| "partitions": {"saved_caches": "/dev/disk1s2", "commitlog": "/dev/disk1s2", "other": ["/dev/disk0s2"], "data": ["/dev/disk1s2"]} | Devices measured by partition metrics |
Using a partition, network interface, or other device name for the device arguement returns disk or network metric data about a specific device across multiple nodes. Using all for the device name returns a dictionary of keys (device names) and the values (results for that device).
Example
Get the average GB of space on all disks in all data centers used each day by the cluster from April 11, 2012 00:00:00 to April 26, 2012 00:00:00 GMT.
curl
http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/cluster-metrics/all/os-disk-used/all
-d 'step=1440'
-d 'start=1334102400'
-d 'end=1335398400'
-d 'function=average'
-G -X GET
Output:
{
"Total": {
"AVERAGE": [
[
1334102400,
null
],
[
1334188800,
21.000694274902344
],
[
1334275200,
8.736943244934082
],
[
1334361600,
9.0
],
[
1334448000,
19.0
],
[
1334534400,
19.0
],
[
1334620800,
19.0
],
[
1334707200,
19.0
],
[
1334793600,
18.629029273986816
],
[
1334880000,
19.923184394836426
],
[
1334966400,
25.0
],
[
1335052800,
25.0
],
[
1335139200,
25.923053741455078
],
[
1335225600,
26.0
],
[
1335312000,
26.549484252929688
]
]
}
}
Aggregate a column family metric across multiple nodes in the cluster rather than retrieving data about a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Returns metric data for multiple nodes.
Example
Get the maximum bytes of disk space used for live data by the rollups60 column family in the Opscenter keyspace of the cluster over all data centers from May 1, 2012 00:00:00 to May 5, 2012 00:00:00 GMT.
curl http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/cluster-metrics/all/OpsCenter/rollups60/cf-live-disk-used
-d 'function=max'
-d 'start=1335830400'
-d 'end=1336176000'
-d 'step=1440'
-G -X GET
Output:
Data points at 24-hour intervals show the metrics for the period.
{
"Total": {
"MAX": [
[
1335830400,
9740462592.0
],
[
1335916800,
9932527616.0
],
[
1336003200,
null
],
[
1336089600,
10644448512.0
]
]
}
}
Retrieve metric data for a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Returns metric data for a single node.
Example
Get the daily average data load on cluster node 10.11.12.150 from April 20, 2012 00:00:00 to April 26, 2012 00:00:00 GMT.
curl
http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/metrics/10.11.12.150/data-load
-d 'step=1440'
-d 'start=1334880000'
-d 'end=1335398400'
-d 'function=average'
-G -X GET
Output:
{
"10.11.12.150": {
"AVERAGE": [
[
1334880000,
null
],
[
1334966400,
6353770496.0
],
[
1335052800,
6560092672.0
],
[
1335139200,
6019291136.0
],
[
1335225600,
6149050880.0
],
[
1335312000,
6271239680.0
]
]
}
}
Aggregate a disk or network metric for a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Returns disk or network metrics data for a single node.
Example
Get the maximum GB of disk space for all disks used by cluster node 10.11.12.150 from April 30, 2012 at 22:05 to May 1, 2012 8:00:00 GMT.
curl
http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/metrics/10.11.12.150/os-disk-used/all
-d 'start=1335823500'
-d 'end=1335859200'
-d 'step=120'
-d 'function=max'
-G -X GET
Output:
Data points at 2-minute intervals show the disk space used by device /dev/sda1.
{
"/dev/sda1": {
"MAX": [
[
1335823200,
null
],
[
1335830400,
17.0
],
[
1335837600,
16.0
],
[
1335844800,
17.0
],
[
1335852000,
16.0
]
]
}
}
Retrieve metric data about a column family on a single node.
| Path arguments: |
|
|---|---|
| Query params: | parameters -- The parameters listed in Filtering the Metric Data Output. |
Example
Get the daily, maximum response time (in microseconds) to write requests on the rollups60 column family in the OpsCenter keyspace by cluster node 10.11.12.150 from May 1, 2012 at 00:00:00 to May 5, 2012 00:00:00 GMT.
curl
http://127.0.0.1:8888/Test_Cluster/metrics/10.11.12.150/OpsCenter/rollups60/cf-write-latency-op
-d 'function=max'
-d 'start=1335830400'
-d 'end=1336176000'
-d 'step=1440'
-G -X GET
Output:
{
"OpsCenter.rollups60": {
"MAX": [
[
1335830400,
102.28681945800781
],
[
1335916800,
124.86614227294922
],
[
1336003200,
null
],
[
1336089600,
127.14733123779297
]
]
}
}
This section contains these tables of metric keys to use with resources that retrieve OpsCenter performance data:
This list of keys corresponds to Cassandra metrics collected by OpsCenter:
| Key | Units | Description |
|---|---|---|
| data-load | Bytes | Size of the data on the node. |
| pending-compaction-tasks | -- | Number of compaction operations queued and waiting to run. |
| pending-flush-sorter-tasks | -- | Number of pending tasks related to the first step in flushing memtables to disk as SSTables. |
| pending-flushes | -- | Number of memtables queued for the flush process. |
| pending-gossip-tasks | -- | Number of gossip messages and acknowledgments queued and waiting to be sent or received. |
| pending-hinted-handoff | -- | Number of hints in the queue waiting to be delivered after a failed node comes up. |
| pending-internal-responses | -- | Number of pending tasks from internal tasks, such as nodes joining and leaving the cluster. |
| pending-memtable-post-flushers | -- | Number of pending tasks related to the last step in flushing memtables to disk as SSTables. |
| pending-migrations | -- | Number of pending tasks from system methods that modified the schema. |
| pending-misc-tasks | -- | Number of pending tasks from infrequently run operations, not measured by another metric. |
| pending-read-ops | -- | Number of read requests received by the cluster and waiting to be handled. |
| pending-read-repair-tasks | -- | Number of read repair operations in the queue waiting to run. |
| pending-repair-tasks | -- | Manual repair tasks pending, operations to be completed during anti-entropy repair of a node. |
| pending-repl-on-write-tasks | -- | Pending tasks related replication of data after an insert or update to a row. |
| pending-request-responses | -- | Progress of streamed rows from the receiving node. |
| pending-streams | -- | Progress of streamed rows from the sending node. |
| pending-write-ops | -- | Number of write requests received by the cluster and waiting to be handled. |
| read-latency-op | microseconds | Average response time to a client read request. |
| read-ops | -- | The number of read requests per second. |
| write-latency-op | microseconds | The average response time to a client write request. |
| write-ops | -- | The write requests per second. |
This list of keys corresponds to column family-specific metrics collected by OpsCenter:
| Key | Units | Description |
|---|---|---|
| cf-keycache-hit-rate | % | Cache requests that resulted in a key cache hit. |
| cf-keycache-hits | -- | Number of read requests that resulted in the requested row key being found in the key cache. |
| cf-keycache-requests | -- | Total number of read requests on the key cache. |
| cf-live-disk-used | bytes | Disk space used by a column family for readable data. |
| cf-live-sstables | -- | Current number of SSTables for a column family. |
| cf-pending-tasks | -- | Number of pending reads and writes on a column family. |
| cf-read-latency-op | microseconds | Internal response time to a successful request to read data from a column family. |
| cf-read-ops | -- | Read requests per second on a column family. |
| cf-rowcache-hit-rate | -- | Percentage of cache requests that resulted in a row cache hit. |
| cf-rowcache-hits | -- | Number of read requests on the row cache. |
| cf-rowcache-requests | -- | Total number of read requests on the row cache. |
| cf-total-disk-used | -- | Disk space used by a column family for live or old data (not live). |
| cf-write-latency-op | microseconds | Internal response time to a successful request to write data to a column family. |
| cf-write-ops | -- | Write requests per second on a column family. |
This list of keys corresponds to operating system (OS) metrics collected by OpsCenter:
| Key | OS | Units | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| heap-committed | all* | bytes | Allocated memory guaranteed for the Java heap. |
| heap-max | all* | bytes | Maximum amount that the Java heap can grow. |
| heap-used | all* | bytes | Average amount of Java heap memory used by Cassandra processes. |
| nonheap-committed | all* | bytes | Allocated memory, guaranteed for Java nonheap. |
| nonheap-max | all* | bytes | Maximum amount that the Java nonheap can grow. |
| nonheap-used | all* | bytes | Average amount of Java nonheap memory used by Cassandra processes. |
| os-cpu-idle | all* | % | Time the CPU is idle. |
| os-cpu-iowait | Linux | % | Time the CPU devotes to waiting for I/O to complete. |
| os-cpu-nice | Linux | % | Time the CPU devotes to processing nice tasks. |
| os-cpu-privileged | Windows | % | Time the CPU devotes to processing privileged instructions. |
| os-cpu-steal | Linux | % | Time the CPU devotes to tasks stolen by virtual operating systems. |
| os-cpu-system | Linux, OSX | % | Time the CPU devotes to system processes. |
| os-cpu-user | all* | % | Time the CPU devotes to user processes. |
| os-disk-await | Linux, Windows | MS | Average completion time of each request to the disk. |
| os-disk-free | all* | GB | Free space on a specific disk partition. |
| os-disk-queue-size | Linux, Windows | -- | Average number of requests queued due to disk latency issues. |
| os-disk-read-rate | Linux, Windows | -- | Rate of reads per second to the disk. |
| os-disk-read-throughput | Linux, Windows | mb/sec | Average disk throughput for read operations. |
| os-disk-request-size | Linux | sectors | Average size of read requests issued to the disk. |
| os-disk-request-size-kb | Windows | KB | Average size of read requests issued to the disk. |
| os-disk-throughput | OSX | mb/sec | Average disk throughput for read and write operations. |
| os-disk-usage | all* | % | Disk space used by Cassandra at a given time. |
| os-disk-used | all* | GB | Disk space used by Cassandra at a given time. |
| os-disk-utilization | Linux, Windows | % | CPU time consumed by disk I/O. |
| os-disk-write-rate | Linux, Windows | -- | Rate of writes per second to the disk. |
| os-disk-write-throughput | Linux, Windows | mb/sec | Average disk throughput for write operations. |
| os-load | all* | -- | Minimum, average, and maximum OS load expressed as an integer. |
| os-memory-avail | Windows | MB | Available physical memory. |
| os-memory-buffers | Linux | MB | Total system memory currently buffered. |
| os-memory-cached | Linux | MB | Total system memory currently cached. |
| os-memory-committed | Windows | MB | Memory in use by the operating system. |
| os-memory-free | Linux, OSX | MB | Total system memory currently free. |
| os-memory-pool-nonpaged | Windows | MB | Allocated pool-nonpaged memory. |
| os-memory-pool-paged | Windows | MB | Allocated pool-paged-resident memory. |
| os-memory-sys-cache-resident | Windows | MB | Memory used by the file cache. |
| os-memory-used | Linux, OSX | MB | Total system memory currently used. |
| os-net-received | all* | kb/sec | Speed of data received from the network. |
| os-net-sent | all* | kb/sec | Speed of data sent across the network. |
| solr-avg-time-per-req | all* | -- | Average time a search query takes in a DSE cluster using DSE search. |
| solr-errors | all* | -- | Errors per second that occur for a specific Solr core/index. |
| solr-requests | all* | -- | Requests per second made to a specific Solr core/index. |
| solr-timeouts | all* | -- | Timeouts per second on a specific Solr core/index. |