I'm unclear why I'm getting this exception. It seems to have realized that I want to enable Event Logging but ignoring where I want it to log to i.e. file:/opt/cb/tmp/spark-events which does exist.
spark-default.conf # Example: spark.master spark://master1:7077,master2:7077 spark.eventLog.enabled true spark.history.fs.logDirectory file:/opt/cb/tmp/spark-events # spark.eventLog.dir hdfs://namenode:8021/directory # spark.serializer org.apache.spark.serializer.KryoSerializer # spark.driver.memory 5g # spark.executor.extraJavaOptions -XX:+PrintGCDetails -Dkey=value -Dnumbers="one two three" Exception following job submission: spark.eventLog.enabled=true spark.history.fs.logDirectory=file:/opt/cb/tmp/spark-events spark.jars=file:/opt/cb/scripts/spark-streamer/cb-spark-streamer-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar spark.master=spark://master1:7077,master2:7077 Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Log directory /tmp/spark-events does not exist. at org.apache.spark.scheduler.EventLoggingListener.start(EventLoggingListener.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:399) at org.apache.spark.streaming.StreamingContext$.createNewSparkContext(StreamingContext.scala:642) at org.apache.spark.streaming.StreamingContext.<init>(StreamingContext.scala:75) at org.apache.spark.streaming.api.java.JavaStreamingContext.<init>(JavaStreamingContext.scala:132) Many Thanks jk