Monitoring and management go hand in hand in distributed storage systems, and this is true for Apache Cassandra as well. Apache Cassandra has a wide range of monitoring and management API extensions that provide insight into its internal processes and make management operations accessible.

This talk will provide an overview of several new initiatives that are closely related from a software developer's perspective. These initiatives follow the same design principles and their overall direction can be characterized as a strategic shift in both management and monitoring from JMX to CQL. They aim to simplify the execution of management commands and monitoring operations for Apache Cassandra, while addressing API inconsistencies and operational complexity challenges by attempting to harmonize different APIs such as JMX, Virtual Tables, and REST. This unified approach emphasizes a close relationship between monitoring and management, leveraging concepts to create a more efficient, secure, and user-friendly platform for operators and developers.

*Maxim Muzafarov*
Aiven, open-source software engineer

Open-source software engineer with over 15 years of experience, specializing in Java and Python. Apache Project Management Committee member and committer with over 5 years of dedicated ASF contributions, contributing to Apache Ignite and Apache Cassandra, particularly in the areas of distributed cluster snapshots, storage engines, messaging protocols, and monitoring and management tools. As a member of the Ignite Project Management Committee, he has led major open-source software releases and is well-versed in big data technologies. Passionate about open-source projects, he regularly speaks at conferences and is an active contributor to GitHub and ASF.