Key features
OpsCenter offers a number of features to help manage both DataStax Enterprise and Apache Cassandra clusters and make your life easier.
The key features of OpsCenter include:
Dashboard
- A Dashboard that displays an overview of commonly watched performance metrics
- Adding your favorite graphs to the dashboard
- An Overview that condenses the dashboards of multiple clusters (not visible when monitoring a single cluster)
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
- Rebalancing data across a cluster when new nodes are added
- Downloadable PDF cluster report
Alerts and performance metrics
- 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
Backup operations and restoring from backups
- Automatic backup operations, including scheduling and removing of old backups
- Restoring from backups
Enterprise-only functionality
Enterprise functionality in OpsCenter is only enabled on DataStax Enterprise clusters. The following is a list of features included: (each is linked to another docs page)
- DataStax Enterprise Management Services
- Alerts
- Data Backup and Restore
- Management en Masse
- Viewing historical metrics more than one week in the past
- Rebalance
- Diagnostics tarball
- Hadoop jobtracker integration