Newts Newts is a time-series data schema for Apache Cassandra. It enables horizontal scaling capabilities for your time series storage and is an alternative to JRobin and RRDtool. The Cassandra cluster design, setup, sizing, tuning and operation is out of scope for this section. To install and set up a Cassandra cluster please follow the Cassandra installation instructions. For further information see Cassandra Getting Started Guide. To avoid unwanted updates and disable the Cassandra repository on DNF/YUM based distributions or use apt-mark hold cassandra on APT based distributions. For simplicity we use the ${OPENNMS_HOME}/bin/newts init command which initializes a Newts keyspace for you and the defaults are not optimal tuned for a production-ready environment. If you want to build a production environment please consult Sizing Cassandra for Newts and planning Anti-patterns in Cassandra articles. Objectives Configure Horizon to use an existing Cassandra cluster Initializing the Newts keyspace using newts init with STCS without production-ready tuning Verify time series data is stored and can be accessed Before you begin A running instance of Horizon running on Linux Working data collection and response time metrics from Collectd and Pollerd Cassandra cluster with access to the Cassandra client port 9042/tcp Configurations has to be made in the etc directory relative to the Horizon Core home directory. Depending on your operating system the home directory is /usr/share/opennms for Debian/Ubuntu or /opt/opennms for CentOS/RHEL. Configure Horizon Core using Newts Create a configuration file with the time series storage settings sudo vi etc/opennms.properties.d/timeseries.properties Configure the Newts as the time series strategy # Configure storage strategy org.opennms.rrd.storeByForeignSource=true(1) org.opennms.timeseries.strategy=newts(2) # Configure Newts time series storage connection org.opennms.newts.config.hostname={cassandra-ip1,cassandra-ip2}(3) org.opennms.newts.config.keyspace=newts(4) org.opennms.newts.config.port=9042(5) # One year in seconds org.opennms.newts.config.ttl=31540000(6) # Seven days in seconds org.opennms.newts.config.resource_shard=604800(7) 1 Associate time series data by the foreign ID instead of the database generated Node-ID. 2 Set time-series strategy to use newts. 3 Host or IP addresses of the Cassandra cluster nodes. Can be a comma-separated list. 4 Name of the keyspace which is initialized and used. 5 Port to connect to Cassandra. 6 Retention rate for the time series data. 7 Shard metrics every 7 days. Initialize the Newts schema in Cassandra bin/newts init Connect to Cassandra with the CQL shell cd ${CASSANDRA_HOME}/bin ./cqlsh Verify if the keyspace was properly initialized use newts; describe table terms; describe table samples; Apply changes and verify your configuration systemctl restart opennms With this infomration set, Horizon will begin persisting metrics using the Newts engine when restarted. Go to the Node detail page from a SNMP-managed device and verify that you see response time graphs for ICMP and node-level performance data. RRDtool Setting up Jaeger Tracing