Mutant Monitoring Systems (MMS) Day 8 – Monitoring

The blog post, part of a series on ScyllaDB training, focuses on setting up and using ScyllaDB Monitoring to oversee a Mutant Monitoring System (MMS) cluster, following an incident where a datacenter was destroyed due to a lack of proper monitoring. It details the process of configuring the ScyllaDB Monitoring stack, which employs Prometheus for gathering metrics and Grafana for visualizing data, all running in Docker containers on a shared virtual network. The post explains how to start the ScyllaDB cluster, configure the monitoring tools, and utilize a load generator to simulate activity within the system, thereby producing more informative graphs. It also describes how to handle node availability issues, demonstrating the dashboard's capability to quickly identify and resolve such problems, ensuring effective monitoring of the MMS infrastructure.