diff --git a/compaction_test.py b/compaction_test.py
index b37db3ece6..ba853f71b5 100644
--- a/compaction_test.py
+++ b/compaction_test.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def test_data_size(self):
         node1.flush()
 
         table_name = 'standard1'
-        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats').stdout
+        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats -r').stdout
         if output.find(table_name) != -1:
             output = output[output.find(table_name):]
             output = output[output.find("Space used (live)"):]
@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ def test_data_size(self):
         node1.compact()
         node1.wait_for_compactions()
 
-        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats').stdout
+        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats -r').stdout
         if output.find(table_name) != -1:
             output = output[output.find(table_name):]
             output = output[output.find("Space used (live)"):]
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ def test_bloomfilter_size(self, strategy):
         node1.wait_for_compactions()
 
         table_name = 'standard1'
-        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats').stdout
+        output = node1.nodetool('tablestats -r').stdout
         output = output[output.find(table_name):]
         output = output[output.find("Bloom filter space used"):]
         bfSize = int(output[output.find(":") + 1:output.find("\n")].strip())
@@ -595,7 +595,7 @@ def skip_if_not_supported(self, strategy):
             pytest.skip('DateTieredCompactionStrategy is not supported in Cassandra 5.0 and later')
 
 def grep_sstables_in_each_level(node, table_name):
-    output = node.nodetool('tablestats').stdout
+    output = node.nodetool('tablestats -r').stdout
     output = output[output.find(table_name):]
     output = output[output.find("SSTables in each level"):]
     return output[output.find(":") + 1:output.find("\n")].strip()
diff --git a/dtest.py b/dtest.py
index da7b31a711..a521fa7d48 100644
--- a/dtest.py
+++ b/dtest.py
@@ -422,7 +422,7 @@ def data_size(node, ks, cf):
     @return: data size in bytes
     """
     hack_legacy_parsing(node)
-    tablestats = node.nodetool("tablestats {}.{}".format(ks,cf))[0]
+    tablestats = node.nodetool("tablestats -r {}.{}".format(ks,cf))[0]
     regex = re.compile(r'[\t]')
     stats_lines = [regex.sub("", s) for s in tablestats.split('\n')
                   if regex.sub("", s).startswith('Space used (total)')]