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<h1>Troubleshooting<a class="headerlink" href="#troubleshooting" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>As any distributed database does, sometimes Cassandra breaks and you will have
to troubleshoot what is going on. Generally speaking you can debug Cassandra
like any other distributed Java program, meaning that you have to find which
machines in your cluster are misbehaving and then isolate the problem using
logs and tools. Luckily Cassandra had a great set of instrospection tools to
help you.</p>
<p>These pages include a number of command examples demonstrating various
debugging and analysis techniques, mostly for Linux/Unix systems. If you don’t
have access to the machines running Cassandra, or are running on Windows or
another operating system you may not be able to use the exact commands but
there are likely equivalent tools you can use.</p>
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