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Philip Zeyliger commented on HADOOP-5834: ----------------------------------------- I'm +1 on JSON. It might make sense to introduce a hook to have multiple sinks for this sort of log data. I'd like to siphon it off some of the data to a database, and I could also see some folks wishing to compress these logs. > Job History log file format is not friendly for external tools. > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HADOOP-5834 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-5834 > Project: Hadoop Core > Issue Type: Bug > Components: mapred > Reporter: Owen O'Malley > > Currently, parsing the job history logs with external tools is very difficult > because of the format. The most critical problem is that newlines aren't > escaped in the strings. That makes using tools like grep, sed, and awk very > tricky. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.