Hi Benjamin, I was discussing this closely with Paulo some time ago, you may have already read the other email about this topic when I was talking about what we wanted to do with a GSOC student. I just can not find it for now ...
In general I agree that we might slowly drift away from nodetool but one particular command I am working on right now is CASSANDRA-16725. It is done, I am just polishing tests but it is in general good to go. There is currently not any way to actually see how audit logging is configured (except looking into cassandra.yaml but after you disable / enable it with a different configuration, I am not sure of any way to check this in runtime which is quite absurd). Hence what I would like to do is to add 16725 as the last command ever in nodetool and after that we might just make a big fat line and we might slowly transition to a new system on virtual tables. The primary reason I want to finish 16725 is that, let's not kid ourselves, it will take another half of year to have something usable (and released!) on this front and until then we will not be able to check how, for example, audit logging is configured, just because we find ourselves in implementing some "framework" around virtual tables stuff and CLI tooling for that. We should go after user experience and functionality first - not building some ivory towers where we spend a lot of time inventing something while leaving a user behind - functionality-wise, because we just have to do it differently. I do not think of any other nodetool command we need to add after 16725 so let me finish that and then we can go wild. Regards On Thu, 15 Jul 2021 at 14:34, Benjamin Lerer <ble...@apache.org> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > When Virtual Tables/System Views were introduced in 4.0 it was with the > intention to provide a more friendly way than JMX and NodeTool to manage > and monitor nodes. > > In CASSANDRA-16404 <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16404>, > Sam raises the point that it might make sense from now on to stop adding > functionalities to NodeTool and to provide them through Virtual Tables. > My initial feeling was that we could provide both until we decided to > deprecate NodeTool but that would require some extra work and as such might > not be a good strategy. > > What is your opinion on this? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cassandra.apache.org
