A leaderless tablet is a tablet that currently has no elected Raft leader. Because all writes and strongly consistent reads are served […]
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How to Show Leader and Replica Counts Per Node in YugabyteDB Using Pure SQL
When working with YugabyteDB, it is often useful to see how tablets are distributed across nodes. Two especially helpful questions are: ● […]
Read MoreDemonstrating Hot Shard Detection (and Why a Tablet Can Refuse to Split)
You may see a tablet growing large and repeatedly attempting to split… only to fail with errors like: TABLET_SPLIT_KEY_RANGE_TOO_SMALL Failed to detect […]
Read MoreVisualizing Tablet Distribution with Real Row Counts in YugabyteDB
TL;DR This tip introduces yb-topology-viewer, a lightweight demo application that helps you visualize how data is actually distributed across a YugabyteDB cluster […]
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