The Data Explorer feature in OpsCenter is in the process of being deprecated in
favor of DataStax DevCenter, a visual CQL tool.
To browse a Cassandra database:
Procedure
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Click Data in the left hand pane, then click the
Explorer tab.
A drop-down list of keyspaces in the cluster appears. By default, the
list includes the OpsCenter keyspace, which contains column families of data in
the cluster.
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Select one of the keyspaces. For example, click the OpsCenter keyspace.
The list of column families appears.
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Click a column family. For example, click
events_timeline
and
expand the OpsCenter console window so you can see more values.
A row keys, columns, and data values of the
events_timeline
column family appear in tabular format. You
may notice that some data values are hex-encoded, not human-readable values, and
other values are perfectly readable. Internally, Cassandra stores row key names,
column names and column values as hex byte arrays. If possible, OpsCenter
converts data to text you can read.
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Click the heading row of the table to see the sort control (the arrow on the
right). Toggle the sort control to sort the rows in ascending or descending
order.
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To browse through the data, use the scroll bar or click Next to page through
the data.