Slides: https://www.slideshare.net/DataStax/advanced-cassandra-operations-via-jmx-nate-mccall-the-last-pickle-c-summit-2016 | Advanced Apache Cassandra operations depends on an understanding of what features are available via the JMX interface. While nodetool exposes many of these, the most useful are still waiting to be discovered. The JMX interface allows the code base to expose functions that operate directly on internal structures, making real time changes to the way the process runs. With this skill in your toolkit there is no limit to the changes you can make. In this talk Nate McCall, CTO at The Last Pickle, will explain how to explore, secure, and invoke the JMX interface exposed by Cassandra. He'll then move on to what you can do with it such as compacting specific SSTables, changing compaction on a single node, managing repairs, diagnosing latency, viewing cross node timeouts, and others. Whether you are a developer or operator, new or experienced, you will be given a thorough understanding of what all is available via JMX without having to consult the code on your own. About the Speaker Nate McCall CTO, The Last Pickle Nate McCall has 16 years of server-side systems and software development experience. He started his involvement in the Cassandra community in the late fall of 2009 when he became one of the original developers on the Hector Java client. He has contributed a number of patches over the years to the Apache Cassandra code base and continues to be actively involved on the mail lists, issue system and IRC. He has been a DataStax MVP every year since the inception of the program.