Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/monitoring-cassandra-dont-miss-a-thing-alain-rodriguez-the-last-pickle-c-summit-2016 | Monitoring is critical to successfully running Apache Cassandra in production. Creating a comprehensive and insightful set of dashboards requires a deep knowledge of Cassandra internals that can be intimidating. Everyone however can benefit from knowing where to start looking and why. So that the next time there is a problem you have the right metrics and knowing which dashboards to look at. In this talk Alain Rodriguez, Consultant at The Last Pickle, will discuss what to monitor in Apache Cassandra, how, and why. He will present examples from commercial products such as DataDog, and open source systems like Grafana. About the Speaker Alain Rodriguez Consultant, The Last Pickle Alain has been working with Apache Cassandra since version 0.8. He was the first Engineer at teads.tv which had grown to 400+ employees by the time he left. During his time at Teads Alain managed and scaled Cassandra clusters across multiple AWS Regions, fully on his own, taking care of the data modeling as well as the troubleshooting and tuning. Alain frequently contributes to the Apache Cassandra users mailing list.