Metrics for the Masses: When Cassandra Becomes Popular in Your Company

Since starting with Cassandra in 2014, we’ve grown to 150+ teams using our internal keyspace-as-a-service offering with 1,000+ tables in production, largely in a multi-tenant environment. Keeping track of the metrics that Cassandra exposes became a large operational challenge, but critically important when dealing with multi-tenant clusters.

We'll discuss some of the challenges we’ve faced when providing keyspaces-as-a-service, particularly focused around the importance of metrics with multi-tenant clusters and the associated challenges with collecting, storing, and displaying the metrics.