I filed HBASE-7757. We can discuss further over there. Thanks, Jimmy
On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 4:24 PM, Andrew Purtell <apurt...@apache.org> wrote: > I never thought it necessary to add a UI to a REST gateway. If you want to > do it, I suggest using a separate configurable service port to the REST > service. Actually, we should add that separate listener/context and move > the /metrics and /jmx servlets that you just added to that. > > > On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Jimmy Xiang <jxi...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > The web UI came with Hadoop provides some useful information about each > > server: for example, jmx, metrics, stacks, log level, conf, and so on. > > > > I was wondering should we add a web UI to REST and Thrift too, as we do > for > > master and region server. > > > > REST is a little different. It already hasa web server. In working on > > HBASE-7738, I tried to add jmx/metrics servlet to the existing REST web > > server. > > We have to add several knobs to avoid path mapping conflicts between the > > new servlets and the existing REST paths. I was wondering should we > > use a separate web server on a different port for example 8085. For > Thrift, > > we can use 9095. That's default port, can be configured. > > > > The benefit to have another web server in REST is that we can get all > > Hadoop http server features easily, and will never worry about path > mapping > > conflicts. The cons is that it needs another port. > > > > Thanks, > > Jimmy > > > > > > -- > Best regards, > > - Andy > > Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein > (via Tom White) >
