Cassandra NodeTool Utility
Posted by FatDBA on July 14, 2017
The nodetool utility gives a easy CLI to perform some of the admin activities and configure the database.
Today i would like to share few of the command/operations that i have tried and tested by my own, below mentioned are few of the commands with its syntax and usage details.
Let’s first explore all possible options or attributes of this utility.
Starting NodeTool
Missing required option: h
usage: java org.apache.cassandra.tools.NodeCmd --host-h,--host node hostname or ip address
-p,--port remote jmx agent port number
-pw,--password remote jmx agent password
-u,--username remote jmx agent usernameAvailable commands:
ring - Print informations on the token ring
join - Join the ring
info - Print node informations (uptime, load, ...)
cfstats - Print statistics on column families
clearsnapshot - Remove all existing snapshots
version - Print cassandra version
tpstats - Print usage statistics of thread pools
drain - Drain the node (stop accepting writes and flush all column families)
decommission - Decommission the node
loadbalance - Loadbalance the node
compactionstats - Print statistics on compactions
disablegossip - Disable gossip (effectively marking the node dead)
enablegossip - Reenable gossip
disablethrift - Disable thrift server
enablethrift - Reenable thrift server
snapshot [snapshotname] - Take a snapshot using optional name snapshotname
netstats [host] - Print network information on provided host (connecting node by default)
move - Move node on the token ring to a new token
removetoken status|force| - Show status of current token removal, force completion of pending removal or remove provided token
flush [keyspace] [cfnames] - Flush one or more column family
repair [keyspace] [cfnames] - Repair one or more column family
cleanup [keyspace] [cfnames] - Run cleanup on one or more column family
compact [keyspace] [cfnames] - Force a (major) compaction on one or more column family
scrub [keyspace] [cfnames] - Scrub (rebuild sstables for) one or more column family
invalidatekeycache [keyspace] [cfnames] - Invalidate the key cache of one or more column family
invalidaterowcache [keyspace] [cfnames] - Invalidate the key cache of one or more column family
getcompactionthreshold - Print min and max compaction thresholds for a given column family
cfhistograms - Print statistic histograms for a given column family
setcachecapacity - Set the key and row cache capacities of a given column family
setcompactionthreshold - Set the min and max compaction thresholds for a given column family
Provides a histogram of network statistics at the time you fired this command.
bash-4.2$ nodetool proxyhistograms
proxy histograms
Percentile Read Latency Write Latency Range Latency CAS Read Latency CAS Write Latency View Write Latency
(micros) (micros) (micros) (micros) (micros) (micros)
50% 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
75% 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
95% 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
98% 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
99% 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Min 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Max 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Note: I haven’t done any activity on the database, so obvious we getting 0 for all the values or sections.
To do a sequential repair of all keyspaces on the current node:
bash-4.2$ nodetool repair -seq
Describe the cluster details.
bash-4.2$ nodetool describecluster
Cluster Information:
Name: Test Cluster
Snitch: org.apache.cassandra.locator.DynamicEndpointSnitch
Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
Schema versions:
1852b5d8-f9ba-3549-b4b7-eaae1da39062: [127.0.0.1]
Status of the node.
bash-4.2$ nodetool status
Datacenter: datacenter1
=======================
Status=Up/Down
|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving
-- Address Load Tokens Owns (effective) Host ID Rack
UN 127.0.0.1 190.25 KiB 256 100.0% 0277aea4-d06c-4175-8d57-6100101f0491 rack1
History of database comp actions done in the DB.
bash-4.2$ nodetool compactionhistory
Compaction History:
id keyspace_name columnfamily_name compacted_at bytes_in bytes_out rows_merged
39d4ff90-66df-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system size_estimates 2017-07-12T14:20:59.209 172588 42619 {4:4}
36186cc0-66df-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system sstable_activity 2017-07-12T14:20:52.664 475 82 {1:8, 4:1}
05558d20-66c6-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system size_estimates 2017-07-12T11:20:33.714 173036 43201 {4:4}
0424fc60-66c6-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system sstable_activity 2017-07-12T11:20:31.718 548 83 {1:12, 4:1}
20b362b0-660b-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system size_estimates 2017-07-11T13:02:43.739 166052 43228 {3:1, 4:3}
203ab040-660b-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system sstable_activity 2017-07-11T13:02:42.948 687 82 {1:28, 3:1}
62569400-65fa-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system local 2017-07-11T11:02:52.416 10157 5164 {4:1}
a1d34560-65f5-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system_schema keyspaces 2017-07-11T10:28:51.446 668 277 {1:4, 2:2}
a1955200-65f5-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system_schema tables 2017-07-11T10:28:51.040 5486 2689 {1:3, 2:2}
a0d906e0-65f5-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system_schema columns 2017-07-11T10:28:49.806 10214 5654 {1:3, 2:2}
003788e0-65f2-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system local 2017-07-11T10:02:51.822 5358 5170 {4:1}
fd05d0f0-65f1-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system local 2017-07-11T10:02:46.463 5324 5199 {4:1}
fca0f4a0-65f1-11e7-ba43-41553ec85c87 system local 2017-07-11T10:02:45.802 5346 5171 {4:1}
c604f720-6551-11e7-9add-f1b60320c550 system local 2017-07-10T14:55:54.706 5166 5067 {4:1}
bd3430c0-6551-11e7-9add-f1b60320c550 system local 2017-07-10T14:55:39.916 301 148 {4:1}
bb8e9710-6551-11e7-9add-f1b60320c550 system local 2017-07-10T14:55:37.153 324 148 {4:1}
Statistics related to any ongoing compaction task, 0 if not any.
bash-4.2$ nodetool compactionstats
pending tasks: 0
Garbage collection statistics.
bash-4.2$ nodetool gcstats
Interval (ms) Max GC Elapsed (ms)Total GC Elapsed (ms)Stdev GC Elapsed (ms) GC Reclaimed (MB) Collections Direct Memory Bytes
36066339 9200 57107 2102 2612889352 32 -1
bash-4.2$
Log levels defined in database for all areas.
bash-4.2$ nodetool getlogginglevels
Logger Name Log Level
ROOT INFO
com.thinkaurelius.thrift ERROR
org.apache.cassandra DEBUG
bash-4.2$
Tracing probabilities currently set in DB.
bash-4.2$ nodetool gettraceprobability
Current trace probability: 0.0
bash-4.2$
Gossip protocol related statistics.
bash-4.2$ nodetool gossipinfo
localhost/127.0.0.1
generation:1499747570
heartbeat:36966
STATUS:15:NORMAL,-1019516550404639999
LOAD:36910:255305.0
SCHEMA:1623:1852b5d8-f9ba-3549-b4b7-eaae1da39062
DC:6:datacenter1
RACK:8:rack1
RELEASE_VERSION:4:3.11.0
RPC_ADDRESS:3:127.0.0.1
NET_VERSION:1:11
HOST_ID:2:0277aea4-d06c-4175-8d57-6100101f0491
RPC_READY:20:true
TOKENS:14:
Provides network information about the host machine.
bash-4.2$ nodetool netstats
Mode: NORMAL
Not sending any streams.
Read Repair Statistics:
Attempted: 0
Mismatch (Blocking): 0
Mismatch (Background): 0
Pool Name Active Pending Completed Dropped
Large messages n/a 0 0 0
Small messages n/a 0 4 0
Gossip messages n/a 0 0 0
bash-4.2$
Hope It Helps
Prashant Dixit
Tales From A Lazy Fat DBA 
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