Gour Saha created SLIDER-1185:
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             Summary: Make Slider applications more debuggable by providing 
additional diagnostics from cmd-line like app-logs, log-links, etc.
                 Key: SLIDER-1185
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SLIDER-1185
             Project: Slider
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: appmaster, client
    Affects Versions: Slider 0.91
            Reporter: Gour Saha


Today, the options to debug a failing Slider application are painful. One 
option is to traverse several links in RM UI starting from the application link 
and going all the way down to the container logs. An app-owner might have 
access to a gateway, but still logs might not be available until the app dies 
if the cluster is not enabled with rolling log aggregation.

Slider provides capability to create apps with friendly names and hence to a 
certain extent hides the YARN application id. It is not difficult to find the 
YARN application id, but then app owners are more used to referring their apps 
by their well-known names. All interactions from the command line using the 
Slider client requires only the app name.

It would be great to provide additional diagnostics like snippets of logs of 
application containers (not AM container), absolute links to container logs in 
RM UI, additional YARN-level diagnostics (if available), etc. All these 
information should be made available from Slider client so that app-owners can 
query directly from cmd-line using app names. Consumers of Slider client as an 
SDK will be able to call appropriate APIs and get these diagnostic information. 
For example, Ambari Slider Views can now show these diagnostics directly in the 
Ambari UI, relieving the app owners of the pain to traverse the RM UI.

At a high level, I am thinking of few additional options from the cmd-line like 
-
slider diagnostics --name <app-name> --app-logs
slider diagnostics --name <app-name> --log-links



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