Hi Josh Is there documentation available for status API? I would like to use it.
Thanks, Aniket On Sun Dec 28 2014 at 02:37:32 Josh Rosen <rosenvi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The console progress bars are implemented on top of a new stable "status > API" that was added in Spark 1.2. It's possible to query job progress > using this interface (in older versions of Spark, you could implement a > custom SparkListener and maintain the counts of completed / running / > failed tasks / stages yourself). > > There are actually several subtleties involved in implementing "job-level" > progress bars which behave in an intuitive way; there's a pretty extensive > discussion of the challenges at https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/3009. > Also, check out the pull request for the console progress bars for an > interesting design discussion around how they handle parallel stages: > https://github.com/apache/spark/pull/3029. > > I'm not sure about the plumbing that would be necessary to display live > progress updates in the IPython notebook UI, though. The general pattern > would probably involve a mapping to relate notebook cells to Spark jobs > (you can do this with job groups, I think), plus some periodic timer that > polls the driver for the status of the current job in order to update the > progress bar. > > For Spark 1.3, I'm working on designing a REST interface to accesses this > type of job / stage / task progress information, as well as expanding the > types of information exposed through the stable status API interface. > > - Josh > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2014 at 10:01 AM, Eric Friedman <eric.d.fried...@gmail.com > > wrote: > >> Spark 1.2.0 is SO much more usable than previous releases -- many thanks >> to the team for this release. >> >> A question about progress of actions. I can see how things are >> progressing using the Spark UI. I can also see the nice ASCII art >> animation on the spark driver console. >> >> Has anyone come up with a way to accomplish something similar in an >> iPython notebook using pyspark? >> >> Thanks >> Eric >> > >
