What should I do with pending messages in a disabled node cassandra?

Question

I refer to the official documentation at https://docs.datastax.com/en/cassandra/3.0/cassandra/operations/opsRemoveNode.html for removing a node from a cassandra cluster.

After shutting down, node "nodetool netstats" gives:

Mode: DECOMMISSIONED
Not sending any streams.
Read Repair Statistics:
Attempted: 0
Mismatch (Blocking): 0
Mismatch (Background): 0
Pool Name                    Active   Pending      Completed   Dropped
Large messages                  n/a         4              0         0
Small messages                  n/a         4             21         0
Gossip messages                 n/a         0         132998         0

Looking at the value "Mode", I feel that the node has been successfully removed / deleted. But I start to doubt when I see that there are "Waiting" messages.

I could not find any information on how I can interpret this information and what should I do? Is node really deleted? Do I need to check for pending messages? How can I?

Answer 1

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