Also, I think that Oozie allows for timeouts in job submission. That might answer your need.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Ted Dunning <tdunn...@maprtech.com> wrote: > You can write a script to parse the Hadoop job list and send an alert. > > The trick of putting a retry into your workflow system is a nice one. If > your program won't allow multiple copies to run at the same time, then if > you re-invoke the program every, say, hour, then 5 retries implies that the > previous invocation has been running for 5 hours. > > > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Need alerting >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Mohammad Tariq <donta...@gmail.com>wrote: >> >>> MR web UI?Although we can't trigger anything, it provides all the info >>> related to the jobs. I mean it would be easier to just go there and and >>> have a look at everything rather than opening the shell and typing the >>> command. >>> >>> I'm a bit lazy ;) >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> Tariq >>> +91-9741563634 >>> https://mtariq.jux.com/ >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Mohit Anchlia >>> <mohitanch...@gmail.com>wrote: >>> >>>> Best I can find is hadoop job list so far >>>> >>>> >>>> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mohit Anchlia <mohitanch...@gmail.com >>>> > wrote: >>>> >>>>> What's the best way to trigger alert when jobs run for too long or >>>>> have many failures? Is there a hadoop command that can be used to perform >>>>> this activity? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >