Troubleshooting Cassandra performance issuesIs the problem with reads or writes? Table specific or in general? Node specific? These are the types of questions you should ask yourself.Sep 9, 2022Sep 9, 2022
Java Heap Space OOM on Eclipse MAT — How to fixI had the hardest time increasing the memory for Eclipse MAT because everyone was pointing to an eclipse.ini file, but that file didn’t…Jan 27, 2022Jan 27, 2022
How to hard set readahead in centos 7.4What I found out is that since the startup scripts no longer run serially, they now run in parallel, adding startup parameters to rc.local…Oct 19, 2021Oct 19, 2021
Native transport port and native transport port ssl configurationHere’s the scenario that was a little non-intuitive to me:Sep 23, 2021Sep 23, 2021
How to generate a thread dump in DSE DataStaxWhen high CPU is an issue, sometimes generating a thread dump is the only way to troubleshoot. You need to see which threads are consuming…Sep 21, 2021Sep 21, 2021
Metrics Collector for Apache Cassandra (MCAC) filters to limit load timesThe Java jvm for Apache Cassandra and DSE expose hundreds of thousands of different metrics. Trying to pull and store so many metrics is…Sep 21, 2021Sep 21, 2021
BYOS (bring your own spark) connecting to Cassandra with TLS/SSLIn order to connect byos Spark to Cassandra using TLS/SSL your shell conf should look something like the following:Jun 3, 2021Jun 3, 2021
Why is my dormant cassandra dc seeing reads?I have seen an issue where a DC that is not supposed to be receiving traffic is still showing reads. Why is that?Oct 27, 2020Oct 27, 2020
Clearing up tombstones in cassandraTombstones can be created in many different ways, but the most common are:Oct 7, 2020Oct 7, 2020