config.yml

host: localhost:7199
ssl: False
user:
password:
listenAddress: 0.0.0.0
listenPort: 8080
blacklist:
   # To profile the duration of jmx call you can start the program with the following options
   # > java -Dorg.slf4j.simpleLogger.defaultLogLevel=trace -jar cassandra_exporter.jar config.yml --oneshot
   #
   # To get intuition of what is done by cassandra when something is called you can look in cassandra
   # https://github.com/apache/cassandra/tree/trunk/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/metrics
   # Please avoid to scrape frequently those calls that are iterating over all sstables

   # Unaccessible metrics (not enough privilege)
   - java:lang:memorypool:.*usagethreshold.*

   # Leaf attributes not interesting for us but that are presents in many path
   - .*:999thpercentile
   - .*:95thpercentile
   - .*:fifteenminuterate
   - .*:fiveminuterate
   - .*:durationunit
   - .*:rateunit
   - .*:stddev
   - .*:meanrate
   - .*:mean
   - .*:min

   # Path present in many metrics but uninterresting
   - .*:viewlockacquiretime:.*
   - .*:viewreadtime:.*
   - .*:cas[a-z]+latency:.*
   - .*:colupdatetimedeltahistogram:.*

   # Mostly for RPC, do not scrap them
   - org:apache:cassandra:db:.*

   # columnfamily is an alias for Table metrics
   # https://github.com/apache/cassandra/blob/8b3a60b9a7dbefeecc06bace617279612ec7092d/src/java/org/apache/cassandra/metrics/TableMetrics.java#L162
   - org:apache:cassandra:metrics:columnfamily:.*

   # Should we export metrics for system keyspaces/tables ?
   - org:apache:cassandra:metrics:[^:]+:system[^:]*:.*

   # Don't scrap us
   - com:criteo:nosql:cassandra:exporter:.*

maxScrapFrequencyInSec:
  50:
    - .*

  # Refresh those metrics only every hour as it is costly for cassandra to retrieve them
  3600:
    - .*:snapshotssize:.*
    - .*:estimated.*
    - .*:totaldiskspaceused:.*