@Nathan Aw It would help to check the whole cassandra system log from restart to shutdown point, 'df -h', cassandra config files to find out the reason to bring down the node; any network issue ? it might give you apache.thrift.transport.ttransportex...

you should be able to find more information from system.log under /opt/apigee/var/log/apigee-cassandra

What do you mean other environment ? If they are separate clusters and you want to populate initial data, you can do back and restore or COPY and import into the other cluster. If you just want to replicate data between two data center in the same cl...

You can only change the tag name instead of the default timestamp format; you can then copy the files to your backup location; it's painful to copy those file manually. you can use script/tool such as tabesnap; you can search on google.com; I tried '...