HeartSaVioR commented on a change in pull request #27398: [SPARK-30481][DOCS][FOLLOWUP] Document event log compaction into new section of monitoring.md URL: https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/27398#discussion_r380387167
########## File path: docs/monitoring.md ########## @@ -95,6 +95,49 @@ The history server can be configured as follows: </tr> </table> +### Applying compaction on rolling event log files + +A long-running application (e.g. streaming) can bring a huge single event log file which may cost a lot to maintain and +also requires a bunch of resource to replay per each update in Spark History Server. + +Enabling <code>spark.eventLog.rolling.enabled</code> and <code>spark.eventLog.rolling.maxFileSize</code> would +let you have rolling event log files instead of single huge event log file which may help some scenarios on its own, +but it still doesn't help you reducing the overall size of logs. + +Spark History Server can apply 'compaction' on the rolling event log files to reduce the overall size of Review comment: That's used as emphasizing "what" we are explaining here, but maybe not a big deal. Will remove. ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is an automated message from the Apache Git Service. To respond to the message, please log on to GitHub and use the URL above to go to the specific comment. For queries about this service, please contact Infrastructure at: us...@infra.apache.org With regards, Apache Git Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: reviews-unsubscr...@spark.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: reviews-h...@spark.apache.org