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You are not reading the most current version of the documentation. If you want up-to-date information, please have a look at 2.5 .
Scylla Manager automatically adds three health check tasks when the cluster is added to the Scylla Manager and to existing clusters during the upgrade procedure. You can see the tasks created by the healthcheck when you run the sctool task list command.
For example:
sctool task list -c prod-cluster
returns:
sctool task list -c prod-cluster
╭─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────┬────────────────────────────────┬────────╮
│ Task │ Arguments │ Next run │ Status │
├─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────┼────────────────────────────────┼────────┤
│ healthcheck/8988932e-de2f-4c42-a2f8-ae3b97fd7126 │ │ 02 Apr 20 12:28:10 CEST (+15s) │ NEW │
| healthcheck_alternator/79170f1f-8bda-481e-8538-c3ff9894d235 │ │ 02 Apr 20 12:28:10 CEST (+15s) │ NEW │
│ healthcheck_rest/9b7e694d-a1e3-42f1-8ca6-d3dfd9f0d94f │ │ 02 Apr 20 12:28:40 CEST (+1h) │ NEW │
│ repair/0fd8a43b-eacf-4df8-9376-2a31b0dee6cc │ │ 03 Apr 20 00:00:00 CEST (+7d) │ NEW │
╰─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────┴────────────────────────────────┴────────╯
We can see three healthcheck related tasks:
Healthcheck - which checks the Scylla CQL, repeating every 15 seconds.
Healthcheck Alternator - which checks the Scylla Alternator API, repeating every 15 seconds.
Healthcheck REST - which checks the Scylla REST API, repeating every minute.
The Scylla health check task ensures that CQL native port is accessible on all the nodes. For each node, in parallel, Scylla Manager opens a connection to a CQL port and asks for server options. If there is no response or the response takes longer than configured value (as recorded in the Scylla Manager Scylla Manager Config the node is considered to be DOWN otherwise the node is considered to be UP. The results are available using the sctool status command.
For example:
sctool status -c prod-cluster
returns:
sctool status -c prod-cluster
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╭────┬────────────┬───────────┬───────────┬───────────────┬──────────┬──────┬──────────┬────────┬──────────┬──────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │ Alternator │ CQL │ REST │ Address │ Uptime │ CPUs │ Memory │ Scylla │ Agent │ Host ID │
├────┼────────────┼───────────┼───────────┼───────────────┼──────────┼──────┼──────────┼────────┼──────────┼──────────────────────────────────────┤
│ UN │ UP (4ms) │ UP (3ms) │ UP (2ms) │ 34.203.122.52 │ 237h2m1s │ 4 │ 15.43GiB │ 4.1.0 │ 2.2.0 │ 8bfd18f1-ac3b-4694-bcba-30bc272554df │
│ UN │ UP (15ms) │ UP (11ms) │ UP (12ms) │ 10.0.138.46 │ 237h2m1s │ 4 │ 15.43GiB │ 4.1.0 │ 2.2.0 │ 238acd01-813c-4c55-bd65-5219bb19bc20 │
│ UN │ UP (17ms) │ UP (5ms) │ UP (7ms) │ 10.0.196.204 │ 237h2m1s │ 4 │ 15.43GiB │ 4.1.0 │ 2.2.0 │ bde4581a-b25e-49fc-8cd9-1651d7683f80 │
│ UN │ UP (10ms) │ UP (4ms) │ UP (5ms) │ 10.0.66.115 │ 237h2m1s │ 4 │ 15.43GiB │ 4.1.0 │ 2.2.0 │ 918a52aa-cc42-43a4-a499-f7b1ccb53b18 │
╰────┴────────────┴───────────┴───────────┴───────────────┴──────────┴──────┴──────────┴────────┴──────────┴──────────────────────────────────────╯
Scylla Manager reads CQL IP address and port from the node configuration, and can automatically detect TLS/SSL connection. There are two types of CQL health check Credentials agnostic health check and CQL query health check.
New in version 2.2: Scylla Manager
Node status check also provides additional columns that show properties of the available nodes. Those are:
CPUs - Total OS CPU count
Memory - Total OS memory available
Uptime - How long the system has been running without restarts
Scylla - Version of Scylla server running on the node
Agent - Version Scylla Manger Agent running on the node
Host - UUID of the node
Address - IP address of the node
If you have enabled the Scylla Monitoring stack, Scylla Manager dashboard includes the same cluster status report. In addition, the Prometheus Alert Manager has an alert to report when a Scylla node health check fails.
Scylla Manager does not require database credentials to work. CQL health check is based on sending CQL OPTIONS frame and does not start a CQL session. This is simple and effective but does not test CQL all the way down. For that you may consider upgrading to :ref: <cql-query-health-check>`.
New in version 2.2: Scylla Manager
You may specify CQL username and password flags when adding cluster to Scylla Manager using sctool cluster add command.
It’s also possible to add or change that using sctool cluster update command.
Once Scylla Manager has CQL credential to the cluster, when performing a health check, it would try to connect to each node and execute SELECT now() FROM system.local query.
New in version 2.2: Scylla Manager
If Alternator is enabled it will check the Scylla Alternator API connectivity for all nodes in parallel. In Scylla 4.0 it uses simplified ping checking if the socket is open and if it’s responding. In Scylla 4.1+ it queries the system table.
Please check the Scylla Manager Scylla Manager Config to adjust timeouts for your cluster.
Checks Scylla REST API connectivity by performing single HTTP request-response cycle between Scylla Manager Server and all Scylla nodes in parallel.
Please check the Scylla Manager Scylla Manager Config to adjust timeouts for your cluster.