When working with YugabyteDB, it is often useful to see how tablets are distributed across nodes. Two especially helpful questions are: ● […]
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Demonstrating 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 MoreExploring Range Tablet Placement (and Which Split Point Created Each Tablet)
In a previous tip, we explored how yb_tablet_metadata makes it easy to see tablet leadership and replica placement across a YugabyteDB cluster. […]
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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