DataStax: Setting Your Database Management on Autopilot with OpsCenter

OpsCenter - Database Management on AutopilotManikandan SrinivasanMike Bulman

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1 OpsCenter Overview

2 OpsCenter Services

3 OpsCenter REST API

4 Conclusion

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DSE Management Services

• Performance Service

• Backup & Restore Service

• Repair Service

• Best Practices Service


Key Capabilities

Visual Monitoring and Management

• Control automatic management services including transparent repair

• Manage and schedule backup and restore operations

• Perform capacity planning with historical trend analysis and forecasting capabilities

• Proactively manage all clusters with threshold and timing-based alerts

• Visually create new clusters with a few mouse clicks either on premise or in the cloud

• Built-in Automatic Failover

Architecture

Datacenter1

Datacenter2

OpsCenter (opscenterd)

OpsCenter (backup)


Performance Service


Performance Service - Overview

• Collects key performance metrics to quickly troubleshoot a database cluster’s performance

• Analyzes Query, Table & Cluster specific metrics

• Correlates different metrics and provides custom recommendations to address specific issues

• Eliminates the need for custom scripting and scheduling to detect problem nodes

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● Identify Slow Queries

● Custom recommendations

Performance Service - Slow Queries

● Display contextual alerts

● Visual Query tracing


• Diagnose Table performance

• Custom recommendations

• Cluster level & node drill down

Performance Service - Table Stats


• Investigate Thread Pools metrics

• Historical Tracking

• Eliminates custom scripts

Performance Service - ThreadPool Stats

Backup and Restore Service


Backup Service - Visual Backup Management

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• Automatic replication doesn't preclude backups

• Backup & Restore on distributed systems is hard

• Enterprise-class visual backup service guards against data loss on managed database clusters.

• Removes need for building custom scripts and tools.


Backup Service - Scheduled Backups

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• User-configurable

• Sync across cluster

• Automatic cleanup

• Activity Reporting


Backup Service - Remote Backups

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• Store backups in AWS S3

• Optimized storage

• Automatic Cleanup

• Future Support


Backup Service - Restore

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• Coordinated Restore

• Different Topologies

• Cloning

• PIT Restore Prod Dev

Repair Service


Visual Repair Service

• Automatically maintains data consistency across a cluster without impacting performance

• Ensures that your cluster operates efficiently by optimally running repairs

• Repair within X days

• Continuous Repairs

• One repair per replica set

• Parallel repairs

• vnodes


Repair Service - Under the Hood

Best Practice Service


Best Practice Service

Benefits• Periodically scans database clusters and automatically detects

issues that threaten a cluster’s security, availability, and performance

• Utilizes a set of expert rules that span a variety of different categories and summarizes the results

Under the Hood• OpsCenter Server orchestrates the Best Practice service

to ensure relevant best practice alerts are displayed

• OpsCenter Server either directly interacts with Cassandra or through OpsCenter Agents to get results

• OpsCenter Server polls, aggregates and sends the results to OpsCenter UI for visualization/end user consumption

Wrap Up


OpsCenter REST API

• http://datastax.com/docs/latest-opsc/api/docs

• Supports all functionality

• Easily integrate

http://datastax.com/docs/latest-opsc/api/docs


• Obviate error-prone, manual-based maintenance processes and help automate the protection of critical data

• Eliminate the need for custom tooling and development

• Help novice DBAs and operations personnel manage DSE Cassandra like seasoned professionals

• Download OpsCenter today: http://datastax.com/download

Conclusion - OpsCenter Management Services

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Q&AMani Srinivasan: @mani_sriniMike Bulman: @mikebulman

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