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Nodetool

Nodetool is Cassandra's collection of delivered tools that help with a variety of different operational and diagnostic functions. As previously mentioned, probably the most common nodetool command that you will run is nodetool status, which should produce output similar to this:

$ nodetool statusDatacenter: LakesidePark========================Status=Up/Down|/ State=Normal/Leaving/Joining/Moving-- Address        Load       Tokens  Owns    Host ID                          RackUN 192.168.0.100  84.15 MiB  16     100.0%  71700e62-2e28-4974-93e1-a2ad3f... r40UN 192.168.0.102  83.27 MiB  16     100.0%  c3e61934-5fc1-4795-a05a-28443e... r40UN 192.168.0.101  83.99 MiB  16     100.0%  fd352577-6be5-4d93-8251-15a74f... r40

Additional information about your node(s) and cluster can be obtained by running ...

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