Performance Management is one of
the major grey areas that most teams encounter with Apache Hadoop environment. Among
the earliest tools to monitor performance has been Hadoop Vaidya, available as a “contrib” project under Apache Hadoop.
In a blog
post published last week, Vitthal (a.k.a Suhas) Gogate shared the details of plans to re-initiate work on
Hadoop Vaidya and integrate it more tightly as part Greenplum HD offering.
This comes as no surprise since a
few among the initial team behind Hadoop Vaidya have gelled
together again as part of Greenplum HD ‘Team of Rivals’. Suhas had
been part of Yahoo team which created Hadoop Vaidya and PMC member of Apache AMBARI
project. After his
stints at Netflix and Hortonworks, he is now at Greenplum along with Milind Bhandarkar
who has taken over the mantle as Chief Scientist,
Machine Learning Platform, Greenplum.
As Suhas acknowledges in his post,
Vaidya has been dusting around for quite a bit due to lack of community and his
own contributions off late. Vaidya, for an introduction, means the Physician in
Sanskrit language and has aimed to cure the performance ills of Hadoop
environment by offering rule based diagnostics. “It runs a set of predefined
tests/rules against job execution statistics to diagnose various performance
problems. Each test rule detects a specific performance problem with the
Map/Reduce job and provides a targeted advice to the user. This tool generates
an XML report based on the evaluation results of individual test rules.”
Some of the key test rules which
Vaidya runs include:
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Suhas lists
integrating Hadoop Vaidya with the Job Tracker History UI as one of his
immediate priorities. We know that there have been other projects which have tried to
integrate performance metrics with Hadoop Job Tracker UI- so this is probably
more of a catch-up step to overcome the XML output critique. Also, he aims to
add more diagnostic tests/rules instead of probably just leaving it up to
community to keep adding rules as part of extensible framework.
Currently like most performance tools, Vaidya also utilizes Job
Configuration and Job History logs as input for analysis. However, as part of
long term roadmap, Vaidya intends to integrate with Greenplum Command
Center . As per the post,
this will enable Vaidya to incorporate “more sources of information from the
cluster such as daemon/user logs, audit logs, job queue information and system
metrics into its analysis. It will also enable real-time job analysis when
running MapReduce jobs.” We do hope
that these features will also eventually be part of the open source code and
distribution. Also, it is hoped that subsequently the enhancements will find
their way into other commercial offerings like Karmasphere Professional Edition
which embrace Vaidya.
The community has long vouched for
a comprehensive performance monitoring tool for Apache Hadoop but the reality
is that aren’t really a lot of successful options that could be handy for Hadoop
performance management. There have been a few viable options like Starfish
which have come through but largely people have resorted to performance
heuristics or looked to invoke inbuilt adaptive MapReduce features. Without any doubt we look for better performance monitoring
tools in the future and Suhas’s team’s effort go in that direction.
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