We want to emit the metrics out of spark into our own custom store. To do this we built our own sink and tried to add it to spark by doing --jars path/to/jar and defining the class in metrics.properties which is supplied with the job. We noticed that spark kept crashing with the below exception
17/10/11 09:42:37 ERROR metrics.MetricsSystem: Sink class com.example.ExternalSink cannot be instantiated Exception in thread "main" java.lang.reflect.UndeclaredThrowableException at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1707) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil.runAsSparkUser(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:66) at org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend$.run(CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend.scala:188) at org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend$.main(CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend.scala:284) at org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend.main(CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend.scala) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.example.ExternalSink at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.classForName(Utils.scala:230) at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSinks$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:198) at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSinks$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:194) at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:99) at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:99) at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:230) at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:40) at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:99) at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.registerSinks(MetricsSystem.scala:194) at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.start(MetricsSystem.scala:102) at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.create(SparkEnv.scala:366) at org.apache.spark.SparkEnv$.createExecutorEnv(SparkEnv.scala:201) at org.apache.spark.executor.CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend$$anonfun$run$1.apply$mcV$sp(CoarseGrainedExecutorBackend.scala:223) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil$$anon$2.run(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:67) at org.apache.spark.deploy.SparkHadoopUtil$$anon$2.run(SparkHadoopUtil.scala:66) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:422) at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1692) ... 4 more We then added this jar into the spark tarball that we use for testing, and saw that it was able to load just fine and publish. My question is, how can I add this jar to the spark runtime rather than the user runtime? In production we don't have permissions to write to the jars dir of spark, so that trick to get this working won't work for us. Thanks for your time reading this email. Tested on spark 2.2.0