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
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