title: What are native transport requests in Cassandra?
body: <p>When looking at node details in Datastax OpsCenter:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/16Xjr.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/16Xjr.png" alt="enter image description here" /></a></p>
  <p>We can see that there were 34903422 &quot;native-transport-requests&quot;, but 1072 were blocked.</p>
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  <li>Could someone explain what is native transport request? What is that in relation to mutation?</li>
  <li>Is it normal that they are being blocked and what does it mean?</li>
  </ul>
  <p>BTW. We can also see that there were 93 mutations dropped and we know what that means: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7573106/what-is-mutation-in-cassandra">What is mutation in cassandra?</a>.</p>