Monitoring Hadoop

Key Features

Book Description

What you will learn

• Install Nagios and Ganglia and understand logging at the operating system level
• Create and configure Nagios nodes for monitoring with custom checks
• Monitor Hadoop daemons such as NameNode, DataNode, JobTracker, and so on
• Configure logs for various daemons and set up audits for the options done on the cluster
• Track important parameters for the File System, MapReduce, and other counters
• Set up Nagios master and client nodes with checks for the system and applications running on it
• Configure the Hadoop metrics collection and visualize it for nontechnical users
• Understand the communication between different daemons and protocols and the ports they use

Who this book is for

This book is useful for Hadoop administrators who need to learn how to monitor and diagnose their clusters. Also, the book will prove useful for new users of the technology, as the language used is simple and easy to grasp.