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  <div class="section" id="sstablemetadata">
<h1>sstablemetadata<a class="headerlink" href="#sstablemetadata" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Print information about an sstable from the related Statistics.db and Summary.db files to standard output.</p>
<p>ref: <a class="reference external" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7159">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7159</a> and <a class="reference external" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10838">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10838</a></p>
<p>Cassandra must be stopped before this tool is executed, or unexpected results will occur. Note: the script does not verify that Cassandra is stopped.</p>
<div class="section" id="usage">
<h2>Usage<a class="headerlink" href="#usage" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>sstablemetadata &lt;options&gt; &lt;sstable filename(s)&gt;</p>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td>–gc_grace_seconds &lt;arg&gt;</td>
<td>The gc_grace_seconds to use when calculating droppable tombstones</td>
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<div class="section" id="print-all-the-metadata">
<h2>Print all the metadata<a class="headerlink" href="#print-all-the-metadata" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Run sstablemetadata against the <a href="#id1"><span class="problematic" id="id2">*</span></a>Data.db file(s) related to a table. If necessary, find the <a href="#id3"><span class="problematic" id="id4">*</span></a>Data.db file(s) using sstableutil.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">sstableutil</span> <span class="n">keyspace1</span> <span class="n">standard1</span> <span class="o">|</span> <span class="n">grep</span> <span class="n">Data</span>
<span class="o">/</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">lib</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">keyspace1</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">standard1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">mc</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">big</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">Data</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span>

<span class="n">sstablemetadata</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">lib</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">keyspace1</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">standard1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">mc</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">big</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">Data</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span>

<span class="n">SSTable</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">/</span><span class="n">var</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">lib</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">data</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">keyspace1</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">standard1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">f6845640a6cb11e8b6836d2c86545d91</span><span class="o">/</span><span class="n">mc</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="n">big</span>
<span class="n">Partitioner</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dht</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">Murmur3Partitioner</span>
<span class="n">Bloom</span> <span class="n">Filter</span> <span class="n">FP</span> <span class="n">chance</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mf">0.010000</span>
<span class="n">Minimum</span> <span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1535025576141000</span>
<span class="n">Maximum</span> <span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1535025604309000</span>
<span class="n">SSTable</span> <span class="nb">min</span> <span class="n">local</span> <span class="n">deletion</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">2147483647</span>
<span class="n">SSTable</span> <span class="nb">max</span> <span class="n">local</span> <span class="n">deletion</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">2147483647</span>
<span class="n">Compressor</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">io</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">compress</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">LZ4Compressor</span>
<span class="n">TTL</span> <span class="nb">min</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">86400</span>
<span class="n">TTL</span> <span class="nb">max</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">86400</span>
<span class="n">First</span> <span class="n">token</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">9223004712949498654</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">39373333373831303130</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Last</span> <span class="n">token</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">9222554117157811897</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">key</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="n">f3438394e39374d3730</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Estimated</span> <span class="n">droppable</span> <span class="n">tombstones</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mf">0.9188263888888889</span>
<span class="n">SSTable</span> <span class="n">Level</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">Repaired</span> <span class="n">at</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">Replay</span> <span class="n">positions</span> <span class="n">covered</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">CommitLogPosition</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">segmentId</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1535025390651</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">position</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">226400</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">CommitLogPosition</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">segmentId</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1535025390651</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">position</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">6849139</span><span class="p">)}</span>
<span class="n">totalColumnsSet</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">100000</span>
<span class="n">totalRows</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">20000</span>
<span class="n">Estimated</span> <span class="n">tombstone</span> <span class="n">drop</span> <span class="n">times</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="mi">1535039100</span><span class="p">:</span>     <span class="mi">80390</span>
<span class="mi">1535039160</span><span class="p">:</span>      <span class="mi">5645</span>
<span class="mi">1535039220</span><span class="p">:</span>     <span class="mi">13965</span>
<span class="n">Count</span>               <span class="n">Row</span> <span class="n">Size</span>        <span class="n">Cell</span> <span class="n">Count</span>
<span class="mi">1</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">2</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">3</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">4</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">5</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>             <span class="mi">20000</span>
<span class="mi">6</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">7</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">8</span>                          <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">10</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">12</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">14</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">17</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">20</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">24</span>                         <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
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<span class="mi">74975550</span>                   <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">89970660</span>                   <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">107964792</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">129557750</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">155469300</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">186563160</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">223875792</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">268650950</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">322381140</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">386857368</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">464228842</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">557074610</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">668489532</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">802187438</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">962624926</span>                  <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1155149911</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1386179893</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1663415872</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1996099046</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">2395318855</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">2874382626</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">3449259151</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">4139110981</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">4966933177</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">5960319812</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">7152383774</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">8582860529</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">10299432635</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">12359319162</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">14831182994</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">17797419593</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">21356903512</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">25628284214</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">30753941057</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">36904729268</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">44285675122</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">53142810146</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">63771372175</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">76525646610</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">91830775932</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">110196931118</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">132236317342</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">158683580810</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">190420296972</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">228504356366</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">274205227639</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">329046273167</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">394855527800</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">473826633360</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">568591960032</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">682310352038</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">818772422446</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">982526906935</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1179032288322</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="mi">1414838745986</span>                 <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">Estimated</span> <span class="n">cardinality</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">20196</span>
<span class="n">EncodingStats</span> <span class="n">minTTL</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">0</span>
<span class="n">EncodingStats</span> <span class="n">minLocalDeletionTime</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1442880000</span>
<span class="n">EncodingStats</span> <span class="n">minTimestamp</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1535025565275000</span>
<span class="n">KeyType</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span>
<span class="n">ClusteringTypes</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">UTF8Type</span><span class="p">]</span>
<span class="n">StaticColumns</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span><span class="n">C3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">C4</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">C0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">C1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">C2</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">org</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">apache</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">cassandra</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">db</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">marshal</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">BytesType</span><span class="p">}</span>
<span class="n">RegularColumns</span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{}</span>
</pre></div>
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<div class="section" id="specify-gc-grace-seconds">
<h2>Specify gc grace seconds<a class="headerlink" href="#specify-gc-grace-seconds" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>To see the ratio of droppable tombstones given a configured gc grace seconds, use the gc_grace_seconds option. Because the sstablemetadata tool doesn’t access the schema directly, this is a way to more accurately estimate droppable tombstones – for example, if you pass in gc_grace_seconds matching what is configured in the schema. The gc_grace_seconds value provided is subtracted from the curent machine time (in seconds).</p>
<p>ref: <a class="reference external" href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12208">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12208</a></p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-default notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>sstablemetadata /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep &quot;Estimated tombstone drop times&quot; -A4
Estimated tombstone drop times:
1536599100:         1
1536599640:         1
1536599700:         2

echo $(date +%s)
1536602005

# if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 100, all of the tombstones would be currently droppable
sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 100 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep &quot;Estimated droppable tombstones&quot;
Estimated droppable tombstones: 4.0E-5

# if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 4700, some of the tombstones would be currently droppable
sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 4700 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep &quot;Estimated droppable tombstones&quot;
Estimated droppable tombstones: 9.61111111111111E-6

# if gc_grace_seconds was configured at 100, none of the tombstones would be currently droppable
sstablemetadata --gc_grace_seconds 5000 /var/lib/cassandra/data/keyspace1/standard1-41b52700b4ed11e896476d2c86545d91/mc-12-big-Data.db | grep &quot;Estimated droppable tombstones&quot;
Estimated droppable tombstones: 0.0
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<div class="section" id="explanation-of-each-value-printed-above">
<h2>Explanation of each value printed above<a class="headerlink" href="#explanation-of-each-value-printed-above" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<table border="1" class="docutils">
<colgroup>
<col width="27%" />
<col width="73%" />
</colgroup>
<thead valign="bottom">
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head">Value</th>
<th class="head">Explanation</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr class="row-even"><td>SSTable</td>
<td>prefix of the sstable filenames related to this sstable</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Partitioner</td>
<td>partitioner type used to distribute data across nodes; defined in cassandra.yaml</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Bloom Filter FP</td>
<td>precision of Bloom filter used in reads; defined in the table definition</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Minimum timestamp</td>
<td>minimum timestamp of any entry in this sstable, in epoch microseconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Maximum timestamp</td>
<td>maximum timestamp of any entry in this sstable, in epoch microseconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>SSTable min local deletion time</td>
<td>minimum timestamp of deletion date, based on TTL, in epoch seconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>SSTable max local deletion time</td>
<td>maximum timestamp of deletion date, based on TTL, in epoch seconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Compressor</td>
<td>blank (-) by default; if not blank, indicates type of compression enabled on the table</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>TTL min</td>
<td>time-to-live in seconds; default 0 unless defined in the table definition</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>TTL max</td>
<td>time-to-live in seconds; default 0 unless defined in the table definition</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>First token</td>
<td>lowest token and related key found in the sstable summary</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Last token</td>
<td>highest token and related key found in the sstable summary</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Estimated droppable tombstones</td>
<td>ratio of tombstones to columns, using configured gc grace seconds if relevant</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>SSTable level</td>
<td>compaction level of this sstable, if leveled compaction (LCS) is used</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Repaired at</td>
<td>the timestamp this sstable was marked as repaired via sstablerepairedset, in epoch milliseconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Replay positions covered</td>
<td>the interval of time and commitlog positions related to this sstable</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>totalColumnsSet</td>
<td>number of cells in the table</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>totalRows</td>
<td>number of rows in the table</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Estimated tombstone drop times</td>
<td>approximate number of rows that will expire, ordered by epoch seconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>Count  Row Size  Cell Count</td>
<td>two histograms in two columns; one represents distribution of Row Size
and the other represents distribution of Cell Count</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>Estimated cardinality</td>
<td>an estimate of unique values, used for compaction</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>EncodingStats* minTTL</td>
<td>in epoch milliseconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>EncodingStats* minLocalDeletionTime</td>
<td>in epoch seconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>EncodingStats* minTimestamp</td>
<td>in epoch microseconds</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>KeyType</td>
<td>the type of partition key, useful in reading and writing data
from/to storage; defined in the table definition</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>ClusteringTypes</td>
<td>the type of clustering key, useful in reading and writing data
from/to storage; defined in the table definition</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td>StaticColumns</td>
<td>a list of the shared columns in the table</td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td>RegularColumns</td>
<td>a list of non-static, non-key columns in the table</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ul class="simple">
<li>For the encoding stats values, the delta of this and the current epoch time is used when encoding and storing data in the most optimal way.</li>
</ul>
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