mapreduce.tasktracker.outofband.heartbeat check out http://hadoop.apache.org/common/docs/current/mapred-default.html see if that gives you some ideas.
-----Original Message----- From: Ranjan Banerjee [mailto:rbanerj...@wisc.edu] Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:49 AM To: common-dev@hadoop.apache.org Subject: Task level parameters Hello, I am interested in finding out the task level completion time. Can anyone suggest some flags that need to be monitored which is an indicative of the the tasks being processed by hadoop. Thanking you Yours faithfully Ranjan Banerjee