Getting started with Nodetool for Apache Cassandra

The complete list Apache Cassandra tools are available here.

Nodetool:

            Nodetool is commonly used by both Cassandra developers and Cassandra Administrators to manager Cassandra node in a cluster.

Getting started with Nodetool.

Step 1: Start Apache Cassandra Server

To get start with, first make sure, your Cassandra server is up and running.

Once it is started successfully, you can see the message like the below one,

Step 2: Open Command window and navigate to Cassandra bin directory.

Step 3: Type NodeTool as mentioned below.

The above command (nodetool) will display all the available commands of Apache Cassandra’s Nodetool.