AxonOps Blog

Compare AxonOps, Confluent Control Center, Conduktor & AKHQ. Evaluate Kafka, Schema Registry & Connect management with RBAC, SAML, alerting & monitoring.

Find the best schema registry options and alternatives for your Kafka deployment. Compare Confluent, Karapace, Apicurio & AxonOps on security, storage backends & multi-DC replication.

Learn how to secure Apache Cassandra with SSL/TLS, manage certificates safely, and perform zero-downtime hot reloading in Cassandra 4.x. This guide covers best practices, common pitfalls, and how tools like AxonOps help automate certificate monitoring and SSL health checks.

Clock drift can break Cassandra's last-write-wins consistency. Learn how to configure NTP and Chrony for precise time synchronization across nodes, use AWS, GCP, and Azure time services, handle leap seconds safely, and monitor clock skew with AxonOps to keep your Cassandra clusters consistent and reliable.

Discover AxonOps' Cassandra commitlog archiving and point-in-time restore (PITR) feature. Simplified backup configuration, precision recovery, and flexible storage options for Apache Cassandra.

A Unified Platform for Advanced Kafka DataOps. AxonOps Apache Kafka® Monitoring & Operations unified for enterprise teams.

Cassandra 5.0 performance gains, Community Over Code highlights, Accord transactions, JDK 21 with Generational ZGC, and what's coming in 2026. Plus AxonOps updates.

Author: Joaquin Casares. After a brief stint away from the Apache Cassandra ecosystem, Joaquin explores the cost of collecting metrics in Cassandra monitoring.

Explore how Lightweight Transactions (LWTs) ensure linearizable consistency in Apache Cassandra. Learn about Paxos v2 performance gains, configuration best practices, and how future ACID support via Accord will evolve Cassandra's transactional capabilities.

By Johnny Miller. The open-source distributed database platform Apache Cassandra is advancing rapidly with significant enhancements in versions 5.0 and 5.1.

Jon Haddad, Apache Cassandra Consultant and Distributed Systems Expert, reviews AxonOps as an operations platform for Apache Cassandra.

Repair in Apache Cassandra™ is still a mythical process for many engineers. Learn how AxonOps simplifies Cassandra repair operations.

Apache Cassandra is an exceptionally powerful distributed database used by some of the world's most popular online services. Learn the fundamental disciplines to operate it effectively.

Learn why Apache Cassandra needs regular backups and how to build a reliable recovery strategy. Discover best practices for disaster recovery, compliance, and data protection plus how AxonOps simplifies Cassandra backup and restore for enterprises.

Learn how to monitor Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes using AxonOps and k8ssandra. Discover setup steps, agent configuration, and best practices for full observability, alerting, and performance management across your Cassandra clusters.

Discover key takeaways from ApacheCon North America 2022 — from Cassandra's new ACID roadmap to insights on Kafka, Pulsar, and Kubernetes. Learn how AxonOps benchmarked Cassandra storage across AWS, GCP, and Azure, and shared findings with the Apache community.

AxonOps saw strong Apache Cassandra interest at Big Data LDN. Discover key takeaways from real conversations with engineers and architects on scaling, performance, and the future of open source data infrastructure beyond managed services.

Learn how to monitor Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes using AxonOps. This guide walks through deploying Cassandra with K8ssandra, integrating the AxonOps Agent, and enabling full observability, alerts, and adaptive repairs across your Kubernetes clusters.