It is possible.. You can set the number of attempts to be launched in case of AM failures. yarn.resourcemanager.am.max-attempts. Default is 2, you can increase it. This is at global level. Per application level, you need to send in ApplicationSubmissionContext# setMaxAppAttempts
Thanks & Regards Rohith Sharma K S From: Sridhar Chellappa [mailto:schellap2...@gmail.com] Sent: 19 August 2015 14:55 To: user@hadoop.apache.org Subject: How to auto relaunch a YARN Application Master on a failure? Is this possible? If yes, can someone get back to me as to how?