Re: OpsCenter_rollups*

[Johnny Miller <jo...@gmail.com>]

@Rob - You can have OpsCenter not write to the cluster it's monitoring:
http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/storing-opscenter-data-in-a-separate-cluster. 

OpsCenter has supported this for sometime.

On 26 Aug 2014, at 12:07, Mark Reddy <ma...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Why is there so much OpsCenter work happening?
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> Opscenter stores a lot of information regarding all aspects of your cluster, such as OS, cluster, keyspace and individual table metrics, after a set period of time these granular data point are rolled up into aggregates. This is what you are seeing in the logs. 
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>> Is there a way to disable it
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> Yes, you could stop monitoring your cluster with OpsCenter or store less granular data, see the docs for all the options to can tune: http://www.datastax.com/documentation/opscenter/5.0/opsc/configure/opscConfigureDataCollectionExpiration_c.html
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>> and whats the impact
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> The only impact is that you will either have less granular metric data to work with or none at all (from OpsCenter)
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> Mark
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> Regards,
> Mark
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>> On 25 August 2014 22:35, Robert Coli <rc...@eventbrite.com> wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 1:42 PM, Ruchir Jha <ru...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I see a lot of activity around the OpsCenter_rollups CFs in the logs. Why is there so much OpsCenter work happening? Is there a way to disable it, and whats the impact?
>> 
>> Opscenter is tracking the metrics for your cluster and storing the tracking data... in your cluster. This would generally seem to not make a whole lot of sense, but there you have it.
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>> There is probably a way to disable the stats collection part of OpsCenter, but that's presumably part of the value add of OpsCenter.
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>> =Rob
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