The OpenTelemetry Collector provides an integration with JMX and Cassandra to ingest metrics. The Collector fetches Cassandra metrics from JMX. From there the metrics are processed and exported to Lightstep Observability.
To complete the integration, you will:
- Configure the Cassandra receiver for the Collector
- Enable the integration by adding it to a pipeline
Prerequisites
- A running Cassandra instance
- Download OpenTelemetry JMX Metric JAR release version 1.9 or later.
- The path to the
opentelemetry-jmx-metrics.jar
file. - You’ve configured the Collector to export metric data to Lightstep Observability.
Cassandra JMX reporting
The Cassandra JMX receiver periodically fetches metrics using a built-in OpenTelemetry helper utilizing a Groovy script. The script is configured to poll both the JMX Agent and the OpenTelemetry JMX Metric Gatherer operation.
For more details regarding configuring the Cassandra remote connection, see the official Cassandra documentation.
Configure the Collector receiver
In the OpenTelemetry Collector configuration file, add JVM and Cassandra as a receiver and set the following:
jar_path
: The path to theopentelemetry-jmx-metrics.jar
file.endpoint
: The hostname/IP address and port or unix socket file path of the Cassandra instancetarget_system
: The metrics to collect. Valid values for this integration arejvm
andcassandra
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receivers:
jmx:
jar_path: /opt/opentelemetry-jmx-metrics.jar
endpoint: "localhost:9999"
target_system: jvm,cassandra
The OpenTelemetry repo provides additional details about JMX configuration.
Enable the Collector receiver
Once the Cassandra receiver is configured, enable it by adding it to one or more pipelines as described in the Collector configuration documentation.
Validate metrics are reporting to Lightstep
You can validate that metrics are reporting to Lightstep on the Metrics details page in Project settings.
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In Lightstep, click Project settings > Metric details.
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Search for Cassandra metric names.
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If needed, click on the metric to edit the description and how the units are displayed in Lightstep.
Create a dashboard for the metrics
Use the Lightstep Terraform Provider to create a dashboard for the metrics.