Apache Ambari: A suite of applications/components to provision, manage, and monitor Hadoop clusters

System Admins:

Provision

• Wizard for installing/configuring Hadoop services across many hosts

Manage

• Start, stop, reconfigure Hadoop across many hosts

Monitor

• Dashboard for health & status
• Metrics via Ganglia (Ganglia is a scalable distributed monitoring system for high-performance computing systems such as clusters and Grids)
• Alerting via Nagios

Developers:

• Integrate provisioning, mangement, and monitoring into their own application using the Ambari REST APIs

These tools are supported by Ambari:

• HDFS, MapReduce, Hive, HCatalog, HBase, ZooKeeper, Oozie, Pig, Sqoop

Sources:

• http://incubator.apache.org/ambari/
• http://ganglia.sourceforge.net/
• http://www.nagios.org/
• https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/trunk/ambari-server/docs/api/v1/index.md