[MAPREDUCE-1881] Improve TaskTrackerInstrumentation

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Assignee: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Reporter: Matei Alexandru Zaharia
• Created: 20/Jun/10 02:36
• Updated: 24/Sep/12 18:37
• Resolved: 20/Aug/10 17:46

Description

The TaskTrackerInstrumentation class provides a useful way to capture key events at the TaskTracker for use in various reporting tools, but it is currently rather limited, because only one TaskTrackerInstrumentation can be added to a given TaskTracker and this objects receives minimal information about tasks (only their IDs). I propose enhancing the functionality through two changes:

1. Support a comma-separated list of TaskTrackerInstrumentation classes rather than just a single one in the JobConf, and report events to all of them.
2. Make the reportTaskLaunch and reportTaskEnd methods in TaskTrackerInstrumentation receive a reference to a whole Task object rather than just its TaskAttemptID. It might also be useful to make the latter receive the task's final state, i.e. failed, killed, or successful.

I'm just posting this here to get a sense of whether this is a good idea. If people think it's okay, I will make a patch against trunk that implements these changes.

Issue Links

• is cloned by: MAPREDUCE-4679 Backport MAPREDUCE-1881 (Improve TaskTrackerInstrumentation) to branch-1