Gour Saha created SLIDER-1185: --------------------------------- 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 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)