Saturday, January 16, 2016

YARN TimelineServer


Overview: Storage and retrieval of applications's current as well as historic information in a generic fashion is solved in YARN through the Timeline server.

This server two responsibilities:
1) Generic information about completed applications.
     Ex: Application level data like queue name ,user information etc.
2) Pre-framework information about completed applications. Ex: Hadoop MapReduce framework can include pieces of information like number of map task and reduce task, counters etc.

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