Configuring Cassandra monitoring

You must configure the agent after installation so that the agent can collect data from nodes within the cluster to monitor the health and performance of Cassandra database.

Before you begin

Ensure that the system requirements for the Cassandra agent are met in your environment.

About this task

The Cassandra agent is a multiple instance agent. You must create the first instance and start the agent instance manually. You can configure the agent on Windows and Linux operating systems.

To configure the agent on Windows systems, you can use the IBM® Cloud Application Performance Management window, or the silent response file.

To configure the agent on Linux® systems, you can run the command-line configuration script and respond to its prompts, or the silent response file.

The product version and the agent version often differ. The directions here are for the most current release of this agent. For more information about how to check the version of an agent in your environment, see Agent version command.