Ganglia plugin is not yet ported to metrics v2 (because Y don't use Ganglia, see also the discussion links on HADOOP-6728). It shouldn't be hard to do a port though, as the new sink interface is actually simpler.
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:07 AM, Eric Berkowitz <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a 2 rack hadoop cluster with ganglia 3.0 monitoring on all stations > both on the native os and within hadoop. > > We want to upgrade to the to hadoop 20.203 but with the migration to metrics2 > we need help configuring the metrics to continue ganglia monitoring. > > All tasktrackers/datanodes push unicast udp upstream to a central gmond > daemon on their rack that is then polled by a single gmetad daemon for the > cluster. > > The current metrics files includes entries similar to the following for all > contexts: > > Configuration of the "dfs" context for ganglia > dfs.class=org.apache.hadoop.metrics.ganglia.GangliaContext > dfs.period=25 > dfs.servers=xsrv1.cs.roosevelt.edu:8670 > > We have reviewed the package documentation for metrics2 but the examples and > explanation are not helpful. Any assistance in the proper configuration of > hadoop-metrics2.properties file to support our current ganglia configuration > would be appreciated. > > Eric
