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Enis Soztutar commented on HADOOP-2206:
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Jeff, any update on this? Maybe you can provide us an alpha release to get our
hands dirty.
> Design/implement a general log-aggregation framework for Hadoop
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-2206
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-2206
> Project: Hadoop
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: dfs, mapred
> Reporter: Arun C Murthy
> Assignee: Arun C Murthy
> Fix For: 0.17.0
>
>
> I'd like to propose a log-aggregation framework which facilitates collection,
> aggregation and storage of the logs of the Hadoop Map-Reduce framework and
> user-jobs in HDFS. Clearly the design/implementation of this framework is
> heavily influenced and limited by Hadoop itself for e.g. lack of appends, not
> too many small files (think: stdout/stderr/syslog of each map/reduce task)
> and so on.
> This framework will be especially useful once HoD (HADOOP-1301) is used to
> provision dynamic, per-user, Map-Reduce clusters.
> h4. Requirements:
> * Store the various logs to a configurable location in the Hadoop
> Distributed FileSystem
> ** User task logs (stdout, stderr, syslog)
> ** Map-Reduce daemons' logs (JobTracker and TaskTracker)
> * Integrate well with Hadoop and ensure no adverse performance impact on the
> Map-Reduce framework.
> * It must not use a HDFS file (or more!) per a task, which would swamp the
> NameNode capabilities.
> * The aggregation system must be distributed and reliable.
> * Facilities/tools to read the aggregated logs.
> * The aggregated logs should be compressed.
> h4. Architecture:
> Here is a high-level overview of the log-aggregation framework:
> h5. Logging
> * Provision a cloud of log-aggregators in the cluster (outside of the Hadoop
> cluster, running on the subset of nodes in the cluster). Lets call each one
> in the cloud as a Log Aggregator i.e. LA.
> * Each LA writes out 2 files per Map-Reduce cluster: an index file and a data
> file. The LA maintains one directory per Map-Reduce cluster on HDFS.
> * The index file format is simple:
> ** streamid (_streamid_ is either daemon identifier e.g.
> tasktracker_foo.bar.com:57891 or $jobid-$taskid-(stdout|stderr|syslog) or
> individual task-logs)
> ** timestamp
> ** logs-data start offset
> ** no. of bytes
> * Each Hadoop daemon (JT/TT) is given the entire list of LAs in the cluster.
> * Each daemon picks one LA (at random) from the list, opens an exclusive
> stream with the LA after identifying itself (i.e. ${daemonid}) and sends it's
> logs. In case of error/failure to log it just connects to another LA as above
> and starts logging to it.
> * The logs are sent to the LA by a new log4j appender. The appender provides
> some amount of buffering on the client-side.
> * Implement a feature in the TaskTracker which lets it use the same appender
> to send out the userlogs (stdout/stderr/syslog) to the LA after task
> completion. This is important to ensure that logging to the LA at runtime
> doesn't hurt the task's performance (see HADOOP-1553). The TaskTracker picks
> an LA per task in a manner similar to the one it uses for it's own logs,
> identifies itself (<${jobid}, ${taskid}, {stdout|stderr|syslog}>) and streams
> the entire task-log at one go. In fact we can pick different LAs for each of
> the task's stdout, stderr and syslog logs - each an exclusive stream to a
> single LA.
> * The LA buffers some amount of data in memory (say 16K) and then flushes
> that data to the HDFS file (per LA per cluster) after writing out an entry to
> the index file.
> * The LA periodically purges old logs (monthly, fortnightly or weekly as
> today).
> h5. Getting the logged information
> The main requirement is to implement a simple set of tools to query the LA
> (i.e. the index/data files on HDFS) to glean the logged information.
> If we can think of each Map-Reduce cluster's logs as a set of archives (i.e.
> one file per cluster per LA used) we need the ability to query the
> log-archive to figure out the available streams and the ability to get one
> entire stream or a subset of time based on timestamp-ranges. Essentially
> these are simple tools which parse the index files of each LA (for a given
> Hadoop cluster) and return the required information.
> h6. Query for available streams
> The query just returns all the available streams in an cluster-log archive
> identified by the HDFS path.
> It looks something like this for a cluster with 3 nodes which ran 2 jobs,
> first of which had 2 maps, 1 reduce and the second had 1 map, 1 reduce:
> {noformat}
> $ la -query /log-aggregation/cluster-20071113
> Available streams:
> jobtracker_foo.bar.com:57893
> tasktracker_baz.bar.com:57841
> tasktracker_fii.bar.com:57891
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000000_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000000_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000000_0-syslog
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000001_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000001_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000001_0-syslog
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_r_000000_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_r_000000_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_r_000000_0-syslog
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0001_m_000000_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_m_000000_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_m_000000_0-syslog
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_m_000001_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_m_000001_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_m_000001_0-syslog
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_r_000000_0-stdout
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_r_000000_0-stderr
> job_20071113_0001-task_20071113_0002_r_000000_0-syslog
> {noformat}
> h6. Get logged information per stream
> The framework also offers the ability to query and fetch the actual log-data,
> per-stream for a given timestamp-range. It looks something like:
> {noformat}
> $ la -fetch -daemon jt -range <t1:t2> /log-aggregation/cluster-20071113
> $ la -fetch -daemon tt1 /log-aggregation/cluster-20071113
> $ la -fetch -jobid <jobid> -taskid <taskid> -log <out|err|sys> -range
> <t1:t2> /log-aggregation/cluster-20071113
> {noformat}
> Thoughts?
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