Mastering Apache Cassandra 3.x - Third Edition

describecluster

As name suggests, it gives details about name of the cluster, the snitching type, the partitioner type, schema version, and the dynamic endpoint snitch flag. The schema version will display all the nodes along with nodes that have any schema version mismatches between nodes, resulting in an easier way of identifying faulty nodes:

$CASSANDRA_HOME/bin/nodetool describecluster

The output of the preceding command is as follows:

Figure 7.9: describecluster