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Nodetool¶

The nodetool utility provides a simple command-line interface to the following exposed operations and attributes.

Nodetool generic options¶

  • -p <port> or --port <port> - The port of the REST API of the ScyllaDB node.

  • -- - Separates command-line options from the list of argument(useful when an argument might be mistaken for a command-line option).

Supported Nodetool operations¶

Operations that are not listed below are currently not available.

  • backup - Copy SSTables from a specified keyspace’s snapshot to a designated bucket in object storage.

  • cfhistograms - Provides statistics about a table, including number of SSTables, read/write latency, partition size and column count.

  • cfstats - Provides in-depth diagnostics regard table.

  • checkandrepaircdcstreams - Checks and fixes CDC streams.

  • cleanup - Triggers the immediate cleanup of keys no longer belonging to a node.

  • clearsnapshot - This command removes snapshots.

  • cluster - Run a cluster operation.

  • compact- Force a (major) compaction on one or more column families.

  • compactionhistory - Provides the history of compactions.

  • compactionstats- Print statistics on compactions.

  • decommission - Decommission the node.

  • describecluster - Print the name, snitch, partitioner and schema version of a cluster.

  • describering - <keyspace>- Shows the partition ranges of a given keyspace.

  • disableautocompaction - Disable automatic compaction of a keyspace or table.

  • disablebackup - Disable incremental backup.

  • disablebinary - Disable native transport (binary protocol).

  • disablegossip - Disable gossip (effectively marking the node down).

  • drain - Drain the node (stop accepting writes and flush all column families).

  • dropquarantinedsstables <keyspace> <table> Drop quarantined SSTables from the specified keyspace and table(s), or from all keyspaces if no keyspace is specified.

  • enableautocompaction - Enable automatic compaction of a keyspace or table.

  • enablebackup - Enable incremental backup.

  • enablebinary - Re-enable native transport (binary protocol).

  • enablegossip - Re-enable gossip.

  • excludenode- Mark nodes as permanently down.

  • flush - Flush one or more column families.

  • getcompactionthroughput - Print the throughput cap for compaction in the system

  • getendpoints <keyspace> <table> <key>- Print the end points that owns the key.

  • getlogginglevels - Get the runtime logging levels.

  • getsstables - Print the sstable filenames that own the key.

  • getstreamthroughput - Print the throughput cap for SSTables streaming in the system

  • gettraceprobability - Displays the current trace probability value. 0 is disabled 1 is enabled.

  • gossipinfo - Shows the gossip information for the cluster.

  • help - Display list of available nodetool commands.

  • info - Print node information

  • listsnapshots - Lists all the snapshots along with the size on disk and true size.

  • move <new token>- Move node on the token ring to a new token

  • netstats - Print network information on provided host (connecting node by default)

  • proxyhistograms - Print statistic histograms for network operations

  • rebuild [<src-dc-name>]- Rebuild data by streaming from other nodes

  • refresh- Load newly placed SSTables to the system without restart

  • removenode- Remove node with the provided ID

  • repair <keyspace> <table> - Repair one or more vnode tables.

  • resetlocalschema - Reset the node’s local schema.

  • restore - Load SSTables from a designated bucket in object store into a specified keyspace or table

  • ring - The nodetool ring command display the token ring information.

  • scrub [-m mode] [--no-snapshot] <keyspace> [<table>...] - Scrub the SSTable files in the specified keyspace or table(s)

  • setcompactionthroughput - Set the throughput cap for compaction in the system

  • setlogginglevel - sets the logging level threshold for ScyllaDB classes

  • setstreamthroughput - Set the throughput cap for SSTables streaming in the system

  • settraceprobability <value> - Sets the probability for tracing a request. race probability value

  • snapshot [-t tag] [-cf column_family] <keyspace> - Take a snapshot of specified keyspaces or a snapshot of the specified table.

  • sstableinfo - Get information about sstables per keyspace/table.

  • status - Print cluster information.

  • statusbackup - Status of incremental backup.

  • statusbinary - Status of native transport (binary protocol).

  • statusgossip - Status of gossip.

  • stop - Stop compaction operation.

  • tablehistograms see cfhistograms

  • tablestats - Provides in-depth diagnostics regard table.

  • tasks - Manage tasks manager tasks.

  • toppartitions - Samples cluster writes and reads and reports the most active partitions in a specified table and time frame.

  • upgradesstables - Upgrades each table that is not running the latest ScyllaDB version, by rewriting SSTables.

  • version - Print the DB version.

  • viewbuildstatus - Shows the progress of a materialized view build.

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