If YARN log aggregation is enabled then logs will be moved to HDFS. You can use yarn logs -applicationId <applicationId> to view those logs.
On Wed, Jul 20, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Ted Yu <yuzhih...@gmail.com> wrote: > What's the value for yarn.log-aggregation.retain-seconds > and yarn.log-aggregation-enable ? > > Which hadoop release are you using ? > > Thanks > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Rachana Srivastava < > rachana.srivast...@markmonitor.com> wrote: > >> I am trying to find the root cause of recent Spark application failure in >> production. When the Spark application is running I can check NodeManager's >> yarn.nodemanager.log-dir property to get the Spark executor container logs. >> >> The container has logs for both the running Spark applications >> >> Here is the view of the container logs: drwx--x--- 3 yarn yarn 51 Jul 19 >> 09:04 application_1467068598418_0209 drwx--x--- 5 yarn yarn 141 Jul 19 >> 09:04 application_1467068598418_0210 >> >> But when the application is killed both the application logs are >> automatically deleted. I have set all the log retention setting etc in Yarn >> to a very large number. But still these logs are deleted as soon as the >> Spark applications are crashed. >> >> Question: How can we retain these Spark application logs in Yarn for >> debugging when the Spark application is crashed for some reason. >> > > -- Best Regards, Ayan Guha