New dashboards for in-depth Apache Cassandra monitoring

The Last Pickle, an Apache Cassandra consultant firm, has released a new set of dashboards for Datadog users to monitor their Apache Cassandra clusters. These dashboards are divided into two categories: Overview and Themed. The Overview dashboard is designed to easily detect any unexpected behavior in the Cassandra cluster without attempting to troubleshoot at this stage. On the other hand, the Themed dashboards are meant for efficient troubleshooting, identifying bottlenecks, and fixing issues. These themed dashboards focus on specific aspects of Cassandra's internal processes such as Read path, Write path, and SSTable management. The metrics and aggregations used in these dashboards have been optimized based on years of experience diagnosing Cassandra issues in production environments.