Rajan,
It is possible for clients to read counters using Java API. You can create
an RPC proxy to retrieve them ( by calling RPC.getProxy() ). In fact the
hadoop command use that way. However, jobs that retired by JobTracker (
those been put into the history page as presented in web UI ) cannot
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We have a hadoop job running and have used custom counters to track few
counters ( like no of successfully processed documents matching certain
conditions)
Since we need to get this counters even while the Hadoop job is running , we
wrote another Java program to read these counters
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