Alternatives to Cassandras Opscenter for people using the open source distribution

Question

As DataStax will discontinue the OpsCenter (http://docs.datastax.com/en/opscenter/5.2/opsc/opscPolicyChanges.html), which was rather okay for monitoring purposes and the daily management tasks, I'm searching for a valid alternative. The list of tools under http://www.planetcassandra.org/related-projects/ does not really look attractive. Is there a meaningful or even better way? OpsCenter already had very limited functionality for OSS. Any recommendations?

Answer 1

Cassandra exposes own metrics via JMX, so you can use any tool that is able to collect JMX data. On production environment we are using Zabbix for monitoring purposes. Also we looked at Graphite but we chose Zabbix because it is our "corporate standard"