Cassandra: disable two particularly slow metrics #655
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Disabling these two metrics speeds up the scrape time dramatically on our Cassandra cluster - from around 20 seconds to 2-3 seconds.
I think it's worth disabling these by default because it makes the JMX exporter much more usable with Cassandra and this trick isn't particularly obvious.