Latency
Read/write latency histograms (p50, p95, p99). Rise = investigation. Compare across nodes for outliers.
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Pending compactions
Nodetool compactionstats. Rising = falling behind. > 100 = high concern. Tune throughput or add nodes.
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Dropped mutations
Coordinator dropped writes due to overload. Non-zero = overload. Add capacity or reduce writes.