Not sure when or how it broke, as I know of people using it in production. There is a way to configure it for different versions of Ganglia, like 3.0, 3.1. Might be worth trying both values to see if it's a problem with one or the other: http://flume.apache.org/FlumeUserGuide.html#ganglia-reporting
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Connor Woodson <[email protected]>wrote: > I have not had success with Ganglia, due to the same issue I think as > you've encountered. > > - Connor > > > On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 6:04 AM, Christian Schroer < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> i have the same problem here, using Flume-NG 1.2 from CDH4.1.2. >> I deleted all related RRDs, gmetad recreates them and i see those errors >> again. >> >> Disk space, inodes, ... are fine. All RRDs not related to Flume-NG are >> fine, too. >> >> These errors result in a gmetad crash after while (more metrics => >> earlier crash). If I disable ganglia support gmetad runs without any >> problem. >> >> Regards >> Christian >> >> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >> Von: Alexander Alten-Lorenz [mailto:[email protected]] >> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 12. Dezember 2012 15:43 >> An: [email protected] >> Betreff: Re: Setting up flume to use ganglia results in a lot of error >> messages in /var/log/messages >> >> Looks like the RRD's are damaged, maybe the harddisk full? >> >> - Alex >> >> On Dec 12, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Juhani Connolly < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >> > We just noticed that ganglia's gmetad is spamming messages like the >> following >> > >> > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update >> (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.SINK.avro2.Type.rrd): >> /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.SINK.avro2.Type.rrd: >> conversion of 'SINK' to float not complete: tail 'SINK' >> > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update >> (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.CHANNEL.ch1.Type.rrd): >> /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap02/flume.CHANNEL.ch1.Type.rrd: >> conversion of 'CHANNEL' to float not complete: tail 'CHANNEL' >> > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update >> (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SINK.avro1.Type.rrd): >> /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SINK.avro1.Type.rrd: >> conversion of 'SINK' to float not complete: tail 'SINK' >> > Dec 9 03:13:20 om-pat-obs01 /usr/sbin/gmetad[17407]: RRD_update >> (/var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SOURCE.scribe.Type.rrd): >> /var/lib/ganglia/rrds/Flume KDDI/blog-wap11/flume.SOURCE.scribe.Type.rrd: >> conversion of 'SOURCE' to float not complete: tail 'SOURCE' >> > >> > The counters are tracked fine on the web interface, but we've had >> issues(gmetad crashing or not starting up, I'm still trying to get >> specifics from the responsible people). I can't say for sure if this is a >> ganglia problem or a problem with flumes ganglia support. Anyone else >> feeding their counters to ganglia getting similar? Perhaps the ganglia ml >> may be more appropriate, not sure on this one. >> >> -- >> Alexander Alten-Lorenz >> http://mapredit.blogspot.com >> German Hadoop LinkedIn Group: http://goo.gl/N8pCF >> >> >
