Enable the Node Map

The Node Map is useful for:

• Visualizing the geographic configuration of a multi-region cluster on a world map.
• Viewing real-time cluster metrics.
• Drilling down to individual nodes for monitoring health and performance.

This page guides you through the process of setting up and enabling the Node Map.

Set up and enable the Node Map

To enable the Node Map, you need to start the cluster with the correct flags and assign the latitude and longitude for each locality.

The Node Map will not be displayed until all nodes are started with the correct --locality flags and all localities are assigned the corresponding latitude and longitude.

Consider a four-node geo-distributed cluster with the following configuration:

Node	Region	Datacenter
Node1	us-east-1	us-east-1a
Node2	us-east-1	us-east-1b
Node3	us-west-1	us-west-1a
Node4	eu-west-1	eu-west-1a

Step 1. Start the nodes with the correct --locality flags

To start a new cluster with the correct --locality flags:

1. Start Node 1:

   $ cockroach start \
   --insecure \
   --locality=region=us-east-1,datacenter=us-east-1a  \
   --advertise-addr=<node1 address \
   --cache=.25 \
   --max-sql-memory=.25 \
   --join=<node1 address,<node2 address,<node3 address,<node4 address
   

2. Start Node 2:

   $ cockroach start \
   --insecure \
   --locality=region=us-east-1,datacenter=us-east-1b \
   --advertise-addr=<node2 address \
   --cache=.25 \
   --max-sql-memory=.25 \
   --join=<node1 address,<node2 address,<node3 address,<node4 address
   

3. Start Node 3:

   $ cockroach start \
   --insecure \
   --locality=region=us-west-1,datacenter=us-west-1a \
   --advertise-addr=<node3 address \
   --cache=.25 \
   --max-sql-memory=.25 \
   --join=<node1 address,<node2 address,<node3 address,<node4 address
   

4. Start Node 4:

   $ cockroach start \
   --insecure \
   --locality=region=eu-west-1,datacenter=eu-west-1a \
   --advertise-addr=<node4 address \
   --cache=.25 \
   --max-sql-memory=.25 \
   --join=<node1 address,<node2 address,<node3 address,<node4 address
   

5. Use the command to perform a one-time initialization of the cluster:

   $ cockroach init --insecure --host=<address of any node
   

6. .

7. If the node list displays, click the selector and select Node Map.

The following page is displayed:

Step 2. Set the Enterprise license and refresh the DB Console

The Node Map should now be displaying the highest-level localities you defined:

To be displayed on the world map, localities must be assigned a corresponding latitude and longitude.

Step 3. Set the latitudes and longitudes for the localities

1. Launch the built-in SQL client:

   $ cockroach sql --insecure --host=<address of any node
   

2. Insert the approximate latitude and longitude of each region into the system.locations table:

   > INSERT INTO system.locations VALUES
     ('region', 'us-east-1', 37.478397, -76.453077),
     ('region', 'us-west-1', 38.837522, -120.895824),
     ('region', 'eu-west-1', 53.142367, -7.692054);
   

For the latitudes and longitudes of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud regions, see Location Coordinates for Reference.

Step 4. Refresh the Node Map

Refresh the DB Console to see the updated Node Map:

Step 5. Navigate the Node Map

To navigate to Node 2, which is in datacenter us-east-1a in the us-east-1 region:

1. Click the map component marked as region=us-east-1 on the Node Map. The for the datacenter is displayed.

   

2. Click the datacenter component marked as datacenter=us-east-1a. The individual are displayed.

   

3. To navigate back to the cluster view, either click Cluster in the breadcrumb trail at the top of the Node Map, or click Up to REGION=US-EAST-1 and then click Up to CLUSTER in the lower left-hand side of the Node Map.

Troubleshoot the Node Map

Node Map not displayed

• All nodes in the cluster must be assigned .
• Localities must be assigned a corresponding latitude and longitude.

To verify all requirements, navigate to the debug page in the DB Console.

The Localities debug page displays the following:

• Localities configuration that you set up while starting the nodes with the --locality flags.
• Nodes corresponding to each locality.
• Latitude and longitude coordinates for each locality.

World Map not displayed for all locality levels

The world map is displayed only when localities are assigned latitude and longitude coordinates.

If a locality (e.g., region) is not assigned latitude and longitude coordinates, it is displayed using the latitude and longitude of any lower-level localities it contains (e.g., datacenter). If no coordinates are available, localities are plotted in a circular layout.

Displayed Used Capacity value is more than configured Capacity

If you are testing your deployment locally with multiple CockroachDB nodes running on a single machine (this is ), you must explicitly per node in order to display the correct capacity. Otherwise, the machine’s actual disk capacity will be counted as a separate store for each node, thus inflating the computed capacity.

Location coordinates

This section lists the latitudes and longitudes of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud regions.

AWS locations

Location	SQL Statement
US East (N. Virginia)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-east-1', 37.478397, -76.453077)
US East (Ohio)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-east-2', 40.417287, -76.453077)
US West (N. California)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-west-1', 38.837522, -120.895824)
US West (Oregon)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-west-2', 43.804133, -120.554201)
Canada (Central)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ca-central-1', 56.130366, -106.346771)
EU (Frankfurt)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eu-central-1', 50.110922, 8.682127)
EU (Ireland)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eu-west-1', 53.142367, -7.692054)
EU (London)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eu-west-2', 51.507351, -0.127758)
EU (Paris)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eu-west-3', 48.856614, 2.352222)
Asia Pacific (Tokyo)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-northeast-1', 35.689487, 139.691706)
Asia Pacific (Seoul)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-northeast-2', 37.566535, 126.977969)
Asia Pacific (Osaka-Local)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-northeast-3', 34.693738, 135.502165)
Asia Pacific (Singapore)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-southeast-1', 1.352083, 103.819836)
Asia Pacific (Sydney)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-southeast-2', -33.86882, 151.209296)
Asia Pacific (Mumbai)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ap-south-1', 19.075984, 72.877656)
South America (São Paulo)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'sa-east-1', -23.55052, -46.633309)

Azure locations

Location	SQL Statement
eastasia (East Asia)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eastasia', 22.267, 114.188)
southeastasia (Southeast Asia)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'southeastasia', 1.283, 103.833)
centralus (Central US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'centralus', 41.5908, -93.6208)
eastus (East US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eastus', 37.3719, -79.8164)
eastus2 (East US 2)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'eastus2', 36.6681, -78.3889)
westus (West US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'westus', 37.783, -122.417)
northcentralus (North Central US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'northcentralus', 41.8819, -87.6278)
southcentralus (South Central US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'southcentralus', 29.4167, -98.5)
northeurope (North Europe)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'northeurope', 53.3478, -6.2597)
westeurope (West Europe)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'westeurope', 52.3667, 4.9)
japanwest (Japan West)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'japanwest', 34.6939, 135.5022)
japaneast (Japan East)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'japaneast', 35.68, 139.77)
australiaeast (Australia East)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'australiaeast', -33.86, 151.2094)
australiasoutheast (Australia Southeast)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'australiasoutheast', -37.8136, 144.9631)
southindia (South India)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'southindia', 12.9822, 80.1636)
centralindia (Central India)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'centralindia', 18.5822, 73.9197)
westindia (West India)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'westindia', 19.088, 72.868)
canadacentral (Canada Central)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'canadacentral', 43.653, -79.383)
canadaeast (Canada East)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'canadaeast', 46.817, -71.217)
uksouth (UK South)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'uksouth', 50.941, -0.799)
ukwest (UK West)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'ukwest', 53.427, -3.084)
westcentralus (West Central US)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'westcentralus', 40.890, -110.234)
westus2 (West US 2)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'westus2', 47.233, -119.852)
koreacentral (Korea Central)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'koreacentral', 37.5665, 126.9780)
koreasouth (Korea South)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'koreasouth', 35.1796, 129.0756)
francecentral (France Central)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'francecentral', 46.3772, 2.3730)
francesouth (France South)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'francesouth', 43.8345, 2.1972)

Google Cloud locations

Location	SQL Statement
us-east1 (South Carolina)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-east1', 33.836082, -81.163727)
us-east4 (N. Virginia)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-east4', 37.478397, -76.453077)
us-central1 (Iowa)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-central1', 42.032974, -93.581543)
us-west1 (Oregon)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'us-west1', 43.804133, -120.554201)
northamerica-northeast1 (Montreal)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'northamerica-northeast1', 56.130366, -106.346771)
europe-west1 (Belgium)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'europe-west1', 50.44816, 3.81886)
europe-west2 (London)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'europe-west2', 51.507351, -0.127758)
europe-west3 (Frankfurt)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'europe-west3', 50.110922, 8.682127)
europe-west4 (Netherlands)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'europe-west4', 53.4386, 6.8355)
europe-west6 (Zürich)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'europe-west6', 47.3769, 8.5417)
asia-east1 (Taiwan)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'asia-east1', 24.0717, 120.5624)
asia-northeast1 (Tokyo)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'asia-northeast1', 35.689487, 139.691706)
asia-southeast1 (Singapore)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'asia-southeast1', 1.352083, 103.819836)
australia-southeast1 (Sydney)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'australia-southeast1', -33.86882, 151.209296)
asia-south1 (Mumbai)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'asia-south1', 19.075984, 72.877656)
southamerica-east1 (São Paulo)	INSERT into system.locations VALUES ('region', 'southamerica-east1', -23.55052, -46.633309)