Monitoring apache Cassandra metrics with Graphite and Grafana

1. Overview Despite the fact that Apache Cassandra provides a large number of metrics through the popular Metrics library, it does not, however, provide any out-of-the-package solutions to monitor these metrics. The command-line based nodetool utility can be used to analyze some of the Cassandra internal metrics, but it is by the nature not designed for monitoring purpose. For many users, DataStax