Ryan, A developer on our team wrote some JSP to add to the Job Tracker, so that job times and other stats could be accessed programmatically via web services:
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-4559 There's another update coming for that patch in JIRA, to get task data. Paco On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 11:17, Tom White <t...@cloudera.com> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > The ec2-describe-instances command in the API tool reports the launch > time for each instance, so you could work out the machine hours of > your cluster using that information. > > Tom > > On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 4:59 PM, Ryan LeCompte <lecom...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> Somewhat of a an off-topic related question, but I know there are >> Hadoop + EC2 users here. Does anyone know if there is a programmatic >> API to get find out how many machine time hours have been used by a >> Hadoop cluster (or anything) running on EC2? I know that you can log >> into the EC2 web site and see this, but I'm wondering if there's a way >> to access this data programmaticly via web services? >> >> Thanks, >> Ryan >> >