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Daniel Templeton commented on HADOOP-12702:
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Please define "a complete mess." According to the JavaDocs for
{{getHostname()}}, worst case scenario is to fall back to an IP address. That
sounds fine to me. I did some digging, and I didn't see any evidence of a
worse failure scenario.
Falling back to "localhost" sounds like a bad idea since more than one host may
be writing into the same directory.
> Add an HDFS metrics sink
> ------------------------
>
> Key: HADOOP-12702
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-12702
> Project: Hadoop Common
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: metrics
> Affects Versions: 2.7.1
> Reporter: Daniel Templeton
> Assignee: Daniel Templeton
> Attachments: HADOOP-12702.001.patch
>
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> We need a metrics2 sink that can write metrics to HDFS. The sink should
> accept as configuration a "directory prefix" and do the following in
> {{putMetrics()}}
> * Get yyyyMMddHH from current timestamp.
> * If HDFS dir "dir prefix" + yyyyMMddHH doesn't exist, create it. Close any
> currently open file and create a new file called <hostname>.log in the new
> directory.
> * Write metrics to the current log file.
> * If a write fails, it should be fatal to the process running the sink.
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