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Published inJul 2017
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Sourav Gulati
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Sourav Gulati is associated with software industry for more than 7 years. He started his career with Unix/Linux and Java and then moved towards big data and NoSQL World. He has worked on various big data projects. He has recently started a technical blog called Technical Learning as well. Apart from IT world, he loves to read about mythology.
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Sumit Kumar is a developer with industry insights in telecom and banking. At different junctures, he has worked as a Java and SQL developer, but it is shell scripting that he finds both challenging and satisfying at the same time. Currently, he delivers big data projects focused on batch/near-real-time analytics and the distributed indexed querying system. Besides IT, he takes a keen interest in human and ecological issues.
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Spark REST APIs


Representational state transfer (REST) architecture is used very often while developing web services. These days, a lot of frameworks such as Hadoop, Apache Storm, and so on, provide RESTful web services that help users to interact with or monitor the framework. Apache Spark, being in the same league, also provides REST web services that can be used to monitor the Spark applications. In this section, we will learn about the REST APIs provided by Apache Spark.

The response type of Spark REST APIs is JSON, which can be used to design custom monitoring over Spark applications. The REST endpoints are mounted at /api/v1, which means that for a SparkContext with UI running https://localhost:4040, the REST endpoints will be mounted at https://localhost:4040/api/v1.

It is time to explore some of the REST APIs provided by Apache Spark. For that, launch Spark shell and run any of the jobs mentioned in Spark REPL also known as CLI section:

Execute the following command to list the applications...

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Sourav Gulati

Sourav Gulati is associated with software industry for more than 7 years. He started his career with Unix/Linux and Java and then moved towards big data and NoSQL World. He has worked on various big data projects. He has recently started a technical blog called Technical Learning as well. Apart from IT world, he loves to read about mythology.
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Sumit Kumar

Sumit Kumar is a developer with industry insights in telecom and banking. At different junctures, he has worked as a Java and SQL developer, but it is shell scripting that he finds both challenging and satisfying at the same time. Currently, he delivers big data projects focused on batch/near-real-time analytics and the distributed indexed querying system. Besides IT, he takes a keen interest in human and ecological issues.
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