Problem has been solved. Was using an old jar (oozie-sharelib-streaming-4.0.0-cdh5.1.3.jar). When I replaced it with CDH version 5.4.5 the counter is now available through external stats.
On 11/17/15, 2:45 PM, "Dandekar, Sheel" <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Oozie users, > >I'm triggering a streaming MapReduce action through Oozie and creating a >custom counter to count the number of ignored records. At the end of my >job, I want to extract the final value of that counter and log it in my >application. I'm aware that Oozie allows me to perform subsequent actions >based on the value of this counter. However, I simply wish to capture and >log the value of this custom counter. I've so far not found a way to do >that. My mapper, reducer and workflow.xml can be found at > >https://gist.github.com/anonymous/b215daf99a3bd6b03b70 > >UPDATE: I've been told that when I launch an oozie job in this way, the >wordcount action is a secondary job which is launched by the original >Oozie job id that is returned. I have no idea how to get this secondary >job id - however, being able to access this may bring me one step closer >to getting the counter value. > >Thanks, >Sheel > >
