Monitoring

Monitoring is essential for any mission critical deployment. It can decrease operational response time to hardware failure, network problems, and software errors.

Aerospike metrics

Aerospike offers many metrics useful for monitoring Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). The metrics are grouped into the following categories. These categories map to system components:

Key metrics to monitor

For a minimal list of recommended metrics to monitor, see Key Metrics to Monitor.

Metrics reference

For complete list of metrics, see the Metrics Reference. The reference also shows how to use asinfo and asadm to see the metric data.

Monitoring solutions

Monitoring tools can provide actionable data for your operations team to address immediate system problems and to plan capacity for future scaling.

Aerospike metrics can be integrated with many different database monitoring solutions, including standalone tools and third-party plugins.

Tool	Documentation	Alerting	Trending
Aerospike Monitoring Stack with Prometheus Exporter	Aerospike Monitoring Stack	Yes	Yes
Aerospike Management Console	Aerospike Management Console	Yes	No
ASADM	ASADM	No	No
Aerospike Logs	Aerospike Logs	No	Yes
Collectd	aerospike-community/aerospike-collectd	Yes*	Yes*
Graphite	aerospike-community/aerospike-graphite	No*	Yes
Nagios	aerospike-community/aerospike-nagios	Yes	No*
Zabbix	aerospike-community/aerospike-zabbix	Yes	Yes
Data Dog	Data Dog Docs	Yes	Yes
InfluxData	Telegraf Plugin for Aerospike	Yes	Yes

^{* Solution has third-party plugin for Alerting or Trending}