Chukwa is a project developed for collecting and analyzing Hadoop logs. It uses HDFS as its storage architecture and contains a number of toolkits for log analysis and cluster monitoring. In this recipe, we will guide you through steps to configure Chukwa to monitor a Hadoop cluster.
The latest release of Chukwa uses HBase for key-value storage. So, before getting started, we assume that Hadoop and HBase have been installed and properly configured.
Next, we can use the following steps to install Chukwa:
Download the latest release from the official website http://incubator.apache.org/chukwa, for example, use the following command:
sudo wget http://mirror.symnds.com/software/Apache/incubator/chukwa/chukwa-0.5.0/chukwa-incubating-src-0.5.0.tar.gz -P /usr/local
Decompress the archive with the following command:
sudo tar xvf chukwa-incubating-src-0.5.0.tar.gz
Create a symbolic link for the directory with the following command:
sudo ln -s chukwa...