[CASSANDRA-14630] SSTable dump and metadata virtual tables

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Legacy/Observability
• Labels: virtual-tables
• Assignee: Chris Lohfink
• Reporter: Chris Lohfink

Authors

Chris Lohfink

• Created: 09/Aug/18 04:19
• Updated: 01/Oct/19 18:21

Description

Allow viewing raw sstable contents from virtual tables. Among other conviences this can allow you to make an admin role who can debug sstables, and extract information (ie accidentally deleted info) without giving them ssh and sudo access to all the nodes.

Issue Links

• depends upon: CASSANDRA-14629 Abstract Virtual Table for very large result sets