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# Introduction to bbolt command line

`bbolt` provides a command line utility for inspecting and manipulating bbolt database files. To install bbolt command-line please refer [here](https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt#installing)

**Note**: [etcd](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd) uses bbolt as its backend storage engine. In this document, we take etcd as an example to demonstrate the usage of bbolt commands. Refer to [install etcd](https://etcd.io/docs/v3.5/install/) for installing etcd.

1. Start a single member etcd cluster with this command below:

```bash
$etcd
```

It will create a directory `default.etcd` by default under current working directory, and the directory structure will look like this:

```bash
$tree default.etcd
default.etcd
└── member
├── snap
│   └── db // this is bbolt database file
└── wal
└── 0000000000000000-0000000000000000.wal
3 directories, 2 files
```

2. Put some dummy data using [etcdctl](https://github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/main/etcdctl).
3. Stop the etcd instance. Note a bbolt database file can only be opened by one read-write process, because it is exclusively locked when opened.

## Usage

- `bbolt command [arguments]`

### help

- help will print information about that command

```bash
$bbolt help
The commands are:
bench run synthetic benchmark against bbolt
buckets print a list of buckets
check verifies integrity of bbolt database
compact copies a bbolt database, compacting it in the process
dump print a hexadecimal dump of a single page
get print the value of a key in a bucket
info print basic info
keys print a list of keys in a bucket
help print this screen
page print one or more pages in human readable format
pages print list of pages with their types
page-item print the key and value of a page item.
stats iterate over all pages and generate usage stats
surgery perform surgery on bbolt database
```

- you can use `help` with any command: `bbolt [command] -h` for more information about command.

## Analyse bbolt database with bbolt command line

### info

- `info` print the basic information about the given Bbolt database.
- usage:
`bbolt info [path to the bbolt database]`

Example:

```bash
$bbolt info ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
Page Size: 4096
```

- **note**: page size is given in bytes
- Bbolt database is using page size of 4KB

### buckets

- `buckets` print a list of buckets of Bbolt database is currently having. Find more information on buckets [here](https://github.com/etcd-io/bbolt#using-buckets)
- usage:
`bbolt buckets [path to the bbolt database]`

Example:

```bash
$bbolt buckets ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
alarm
auth
authRoles
authUsers
cluster
key
lease
members
members_removed
meta
```

- It means when you start an etcd, it creates these `10` buckets using bbolt database.

### check

- `check` opens a database at a given `[PATH]` and runs an exhaustive check to verify that all pages are accessible or are marked as freed. It also verifies that no pages are double referenced.
- usage:
`bbolt check [path to the bbolt database]`

Example:

```bash
$bbolt check ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
ok
```

- It returns `ok` as our database file `db` is not corrupted.

### stats

- To gather essential statistics about the bbolt database: `stats` performs an extensive search of the database to track every page reference. It starts at the current meta page and recursively iterates through every accessible bucket.
- usage:
`bbolt stats [path to the bbolt database]`

Example:

```bash
$bbolt stats ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
Aggregate statistics for 10 buckets
Page count statistics
Number of logical branch pages: 0
Number of physical branch overflow pages: 0
Number of logical leaf pages: 0
Number of physical leaf overflow pages: 0
Tree statistics
Number of keys/value pairs: 11
Number of levels in B+tree: 1
Page size utilization
Bytes allocated for physical branch pages: 0
Bytes actually used for branch data: 0 (0%)
Bytes allocated for physical leaf pages: 0
Bytes actually used for leaf data: 0 (0%)
Bucket statistics
Total number of buckets: 10
Total number on inlined buckets: 10 (100%)
Bytes used for inlined buckets: 780 (0%)
```

### pages

- Pages prints a table of pages with their type (meta, leaf, branch, freelist).
- The `meta` will store the metadata information of database.
- The `leaf` and `branch` pages will show a key count in the `items` column.
- The `freelist` will show the number of free pages, which are free for writing again.
- The `overflow` column shows the number of blocks that the page spills over into.
- usage:
`bbolt pages [path to the bbolt database]`

Example:

```bash
$bbolt pages ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
ID TYPE ITEMS OVRFLW
======== ========== ====== ======
0 meta 0
1 meta 0
2 free
3 leaf 10
4 freelist 2
5 free
```

### page

- Page prints one or more pages in human readable format.
- usage:

```bash
bolt page [path to the bbolt database] pageid [pageid...]
or: bolt page --all [path to the bbolt database]
Additional options include:
--all
prints all pages (only skips pages that were considered successful overflow pages)
--format-value=auto|ascii-encoded|hex|bytes|redacted (default: auto)
prints values (on the leaf page) using the given format
```

Example:

```bash
$bbolt page ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db 3
Page ID: 3
Page Type: leaf
Total Size: 4096 bytes
Overflow pages: 0
Item Count: 10
"alarm": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"auth": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"authRoles": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"authUsers": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"cluster": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"key": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"lease": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"members": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"members_removed": <pgid=0,seq=0>
"meta": <pgid=0,seq=0>
```

- It prints information of page `page ID: 3`

### page-item

- page-item prints a page item's key and value.
- usage:
```bash
bolt page-item [options] [path to the bbolt database] <pageId> <itemId>
Additional options include:
--key-only
Print only the key
--value-only
Print only the value
--format
Output format. One of: auto|ascii-encoded|hex|bytes|redacted (default=ascii-encoded)
```
Example:
```bash
$bbolt page-item --key-only ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db 3 7
"members"
```
- It returns the key as `--key-only` flag is passed of `pageID: 3` and `itemID: 7`
### dump
- Dump prints a hexadecimal dump of one or more given pages.
- usage:
`bolt dump [path to the bbolt database] [pageid...]`
### keys
- Print a list of keys in the given bucket.
- usage:
```bash
bolt keys [path to the bbolt database] [BucketName]
Additional options include:
--format
Output format. One of: auto|ascii-encoded|hex|bytes|redacted (default=bytes)
```
Example 1:
```bash
$bbolt keys ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db meta
confState
consistent_index
term
```
- It list all the keys in bucket: `meta`
Example 2:
```bash
$bbolt keys ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db members
8e9e05c52164694d
```
- It list all the keys in `members` bucket which is a `memberId` of etcd cluster member.
- In this case we are running a single member etcd cluster, hence only `one memberId` is present. If we would have run a `3` member etcd cluster then it will return a `3 memberId` as `3 cluster members` would have been present in `members` bucket.
### get
- Print the value of the given key in the given bucket.
- usage:
```bash
bolt get [path to the bbolt database] [BucketName] [Key]
Additional options include:
--format
Output format. One of: auto|ascii-encoded|hex|bytes|redacted (default=bytes)
--parse-format
Input format (of key). One of: ascii-encoded|hex (default=ascii-encoded)"
```
Example 1:
```bash
$bbolt get --format=hex ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db meta term
0000000000000004
```
- It returns the value present in bucket: `meta` for key: `term` in hexadecimal format.
Example 2:
```bash
$bbolt get ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db members 8e9e05c52164694d
{"id":10276657743932975437,"peerURLs":["http://localhost:2380"],"name":"default","clientURLs":["http://localhost:2379"]}
```
- It returns the value present in bucket: `members` for key: `8e9e05c52164694d`.
### compact
- Compact opens a database at given `[Source Path]` and walks it recursively, copying keys as they are found from all buckets, to a newly created database at `[Destination Path]`. The original database is left untouched.
- usage:
```bash
bbolt compact [options] -o [Destination Path] [Source Path]
Additional options include:
-tx-max-size NUM
Specifies the maximum size of individual transactions.
Defaults to 64KB
```
Example:
```bash
$bbolt compact -o ~/db.compact ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db
16805888 -> 32768 bytes (gain=512.88x)
```
- It will create a compacted database file: `db.compact` at given path.
### bench
- run synthetic benchmark against bbolt database.
- usage:
```bash
Usage:
-batch-size int
-blockprofile string
-count int
(default 1000)
-cpuprofile string
-fill-percent float
(default 0.5)
-key-size int
(default 8)
-memprofile string
-no-sync
-path string
-profile-mode string
(default "rw")
-read-mode string
(default "seq")
-value-size int
(default 32)
-work
-write-mode string
(default "seq")
```
Example:
```bash
$bbolt bench ~/default.etcd/member/snap/db -batch-size 400 -key-size 16
# Write 68.523572ms (68.523µs/op) (14593 op/sec)
# Read 1.000015152s (11ns/op) (90909090 op/sec)
```
- It runs a benchmark with batch size of `400` and with key size of `16` while for others parameters default value is taken.

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