Key features

DataStax OpsCenter offers features to more easily manage both DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra clusters.

The key features of OpsCenter include:

Dashboard

An Overview that shows any alerts and condenses the dashboards of multiple clusters.

A Dashboard that displays an overview of commonly monitored performance metrics.

Ability to add and edit graphs in the dashboard.

Configuration and administration

Basic cluster configuration.

Administration tasks, such as adding a cluster, using simple point-and-click actions.

Visual creation of clusters.

Multiple cluster management from a single OpsCenter instance using agents.

Multiple node management.

Downloadable PDF cluster report.

Enterprise-only functionality

Enterprise functionality in OpsCenter is only enabled on DataStax Enterprise clusters.

Monitoring capabilities of DSE In-Memory tables.

View the Spark console.

Automatic failover from the primary OpsCenter to a backup OpsCenter instance.

Security, with the ability to define user roles.

DSE Management Services
  • Backup Service - allows automatic or manual backup and restore of data in clusters.
  • Repair Service - continuously runs and performs repair operations across a DSE cluster.
  • Capacity Service - understand cluster performance trends at a glance and plan for future capacity with forecasting.
  • Best Practice Service - schedule pre-defined best practice rules that check various properties of clusters and environments.
Alerts
  • Built-in external notification capabilities.
  • Alert warnings of impending issues.
  • Metrics are collected every minute from Cassandra, Analytics, and Search nodes, and stored in a keyspace created by OpsCenter.

Manage multiple nodes simultaneously for certain bulk operations.

Rebalance data across a cluster when new nodes are added or removed.

Generate a diagnostics tarball to send to support for further troubleshooting.

Hadoop Job Tracker integration.

View historical metrics more than one week in the past.