About Mission Control
DataStax Mission Control is a comprehensive tool designed for managing and optimizing your Hyper-Converged Database (HCD), DataStax Enterprise (DSE), and Apache Cassandra® database clusters. Mission Control is designed to streamline your database operations by offering a centralized interface to monitor, manage, and troubleshoot your data infrastructure. It provides the insights and controls necessary to ensure your clusters run smoothly and efficiently.
Mission Control focuses on the lifecycle management, security, operations, and observability of HCD, DSE, and Cassandra clusters. It orchestrates automation across regional cluster boundaries, centralizing the management of globally deployed clusters into a single location.
Mission Control operates through the Kubernetes API, making it fully compatible with infrastructure-as-code and GitOps workflows.
You can manage clusters using kubectl, YAML manifests, or GitOps tools like like Argo CD and Flux.
The Mission Control UI is optional.
For more information about IaC and GitOps workflows, see Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and GitOps workflows.
For a comparison of UI-based and programmatic workflows, see Choose your workflow.
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To get started, see Get started with Mission Control or Quickstart: Local Mission Control installation. |
The features and capabilities of Mission Control include the following:
- Advanced cluster operations management
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Configure and manage your clusters, including node management, configuration, and updates. Mission Control simplifies the administrative tasks involved in maintaining a healthy and robust data infrastructure.
Perform a variety of operations on HCD, DSE, and Cassandra clusters and datacenters, such as:
- Observability
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Mission Control monitors and logs activity in clusters, nodes, and datacenters. It tracks the performance of your clusters with detailed metrics on throughput, latency, and resource utilization so you can identify bottlenecks and optimize performance. Observe metrics, logs, and monitoring alerts.
- Security
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Mission Control enables authentication and authorization by default. The user interface, as well as communication between Mission Control’s operators and nodes is encrypted with mutual Transport Layer Security (TLS). For more information, see Secure Mission Control infrastructure.
- Troubleshooting tools
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Diagnose and resolve issues with advanced diagnostic tools and logs. Mission Control provides you with the information needed to troubleshoot problems and ensure continuous operation. You can generate a support bundle from Mission Control and contact your account team. For more information, see Support for Mission Control.
