Investigate and Solve the tombstone_failure_threshold Error

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Error:

2016-02-08T10:33:51.793522651Z ERROR 10:33:51 Scanned over 100001 tombstones in benchflow.environment_data; 1000 columns were requested; query aborted (see tombstone_failure_threshold); partitionKey=null; lastCell=77746bae-cde5-11e5-90b6-0242ac110002:00cc9619-66a1-9e11-e594-91c8e0eb1859:cpu_percpu_usage:78bee7e8cde511e5a7ba0717efa9aa0c; slices=[-]

Some references:

• https://www.quora.com/How-do-I-change-the-default-settings-for-tombstones-And-how-do-I-display-tombstone-marked-records-in-a-CQLSH-command-prompt
• http://grokbase.com/t/cassandra/user/146ywhfq3h/any-better-solution-to-avoid-tombstoneoverwhelmingexception
• https://github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions