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Home 2016 May NoSQL: To Locate and Edit cassandra.yaml Configuration File of Cassandra

NoSQL: To Locate and Edit cassandra.yaml Configuration File of Cassandra

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What is cassandra.yaml configuration file?

The cassandra.yaml file is the main configuration file of Cassandra. This file is very important for all kinds of Cassandra node and cluster level configurations.
After changing properties in the cassandra.yaml file, you must restart the node for getting the configuration changes.

The default location of cassandra.yaml:

The default location in linux is: /etc/cassandra.
You can open this file with admin (sudo) user and can edit this.

Basic commands to locate this file:

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-- to list out all folders and files
$ ls -a
 
-- change directory
$ cd /etc
$ cd cassandra

Cassandra Yaml File Location

Basic commands to open this file:

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$ sudo nano cassandra.yaml

Cassandra Yaml File Configuration

After edit, Restart the cassandra service:

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-- restart service
$ sudo service cassandra restart
-- after restart check the service status
$ sudo service cassandra status
May 6, 2016Anvesh Patel
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Comments: 2
  1. Maktine
    June 2, 2016 at 4:34 am

    Thank you for your article. Really Great.

  2. Marcus
    September 4, 2018 at 4:32 am

    instead of restarting all nodes for the yaml to take effect for a single value changed, is there a simple way to make use of the new value temporarily? I mean for an hour or so and then fall back to original value?

Anvesh Patel
Anvesh Patel

Database Engineer

May 6, 2016 Cassandra, NoSQLAnvesh Patel, Cassandra, cassandra.yaml, Column Store, database, database research and development, dbrnd, Document Store, Graph Store, Key Value Store, NoSQL, Not Only SQL, Unstrucutred
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