Hadoop Agent

The Monitoring Agent for Hadoop (product code H8) provides you with the capability to monitor Hadoop.

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring is the base software for the Hadoop agent.

Functions of the monitoring agent
  • Monitoring Hadoop Services

    Hadoop services such as ZooKeeper, yarn, hive, Sqoop, AmbariMetrics are monitored through monitoring different Hadoop services function. Hadoop services have different server and client components with various states.

  • Monitoring Hadoop Daemons such as DataNode, NameNode, JVM

    Hadoop cluster has one Namenode and many Datanodes. Each Datanodes and Namenode has various parameters that are monitored through this function.

  • Auto Discovery of DataNodes and Node Managers

    Hadoop Agent provides functions to discover all the DataNodes and Node Managers present in Hadoop cluster.

  • Monitoring High Availability Daemons such as Standby NameNode and Standby Resource Manager
  • Triggering events as per requirement.

For information about the dashboards, thresholds and attributes, see the Monitoring Agent for Hadoop Reference.

For information about the installation and configuration, see the Monitoring Agent for Hadoop Installation and Configuration Guide.

For information about the troubleshooting topics, see the Monitoring Agent for Hadoop Troubleshooting Guide