sstablemetadata

The sstablemetadata utility prints metadata about a specified SSTable.

The sstablemetadata utility prints metadata about a specified SSTable, including:
  • SSTable name
  • partitioner
  • SSTable level (for Leveled Compaction only)
  • number of tombstones and Dropped timestamps (in epoch time)
  • number of cells and size (in bytes) per row

Use this report to troubleshoot wide rows or performance-degrading tombstones.

Procedure

  1. Switch to the CASSANDRA_HOME directory.
  2. Enter the command /tools/bin/sstablemetadata followed by the filenames of one or more SSTables.
    $ tools/bin/sstablemetadata <sstable_name filenames>
    tools/bin/sstablemetadata  data/data/autogeneratedtest/transaction_by_retailer-f27e4d5078dc11e59d629d03f52e8a2b/ma-203-big-Data.db
    SSTable: data/data/autogeneratedtest/transaction_by_retailer-f27e4d5078dc11e59d629d03f52e8a2b/ma-203-big
    Partitioner: org.apache.cassandra.dht.Murmur3Partitioner
    Bloom Filter FP chance: 0.010000
    Minimum timestamp: 1445871871053006
    Maximum timestamp: 1445871953354005
    SSTable max local deletion time: 2147483647
    Compression ratio: -1.0
    Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.0
    SSTable Level: 0
    Repaired at: 0
    ReplayPosition(segmentId=1445871179392, position=18397674)
    Estimated tombstone drop times:
    2147483647:   7816721
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    Estimated cardinality: 722835