In our containerised scala application , we are using phantom library for persisting and retrieving data from Cassandra. We have a requirement to do regular health check on Cassandra.
Presently, on bootstrap of application when there is a deployment in any new kubernetes pod, we check for an active Cassandra session and then later run a scheduled check on Cassandra health.
Appreciate if could share alternatives to do health check on Cassandra.
If you're using the DataStax Cassandra Operator (cass-operator), the health check is already done for you automatically. If a pod goes down, the cass-operator will automatically attempt to recover it for you.
If you haven't already seen it, have a look at open-source K8ssandra. It is a ready-made platform for running Apache Cassandra in Kubernetes using the DataStax Cassandra Operator under the hood but with all the tooling built-in:
Since all these components are open-source, they are all free to use and don't require a licence or paid subscription but still comes with a robust community support. Cheers!
