Usage

Hannibal Usage / Tutorial

This document covers the usage of Hannibal, it does not cover it's installation or configuration. If you did not already, please read the README first.

Introduction

There are several reasons to disable automatic splitting, such as avoiding compaction storms, splitting at the correct key in case when your data growth is not uniform, or just having beautiful split-keys. But one problem that arises is that you have to monitor your region somehow.

HBase itself brings some kind of "service web ui" which exposes information about regions, their sizes and where they are deployed, but in a way that is not easily consumable by human brains. So the first question to ask is:

How well is the load balanced over the RegionServers?

To answer this question, Hannibals root-page displays XXX TO BE CONTINUED