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Ankit Jain
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Ankit Jain holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering. He has 6 years, experience in designing and architecting solutions for the big data domain and has been involved with several complex engagements. His technical strengths include Hadoop, Storm, S4, HBase, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Elasticsearch, machine learning, Kafka, Spring, Java, and J2EE. He also shares his thoughts on his personal blog. You can follow him on Twitter at @mynameisanky. He spends most of his time reading books and playing with different technologies. When not at work, he spends time with his family and friends watching movies and playing games.
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Monitoring the Storm cluster using Ganglia


Ganglia is a monitoring tool that is used to collect the metrics of different types of processes that run on a cluster. In most applications, Ganglia is used as the centralized monitoring tool to display the metrics of all the processes that run on a cluster. Hence, it is essential that you enable the monitoring of the Storm cluster through Ganglia.

Ganglia has three important components:

  • Gmond: This is a monitoring daemon of Ganglia that collects the metrics of nodes and sends this information to the Gmetad server. To collect the metrics of each Storm node, you will need to install the Gmond daemon on each of them.
  • Gmetad: This gathers the metrics from all the Gmond nodes and stores them in the round-robin database.
  • Ganglia web interface: This displays the metrics information in a graphical form.

Storm doesn't have built-in support to monitor the Storm cluster using Ganglia. However, with JMXTrans, you can enable Storm monitoring using Ganglia. The...

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Ankit Jain holds a bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering. He has 6 years, experience in designing and architecting solutions for the big data domain and has been involved with several complex engagements. His technical strengths include Hadoop, Storm, S4, HBase, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, Elasticsearch, machine learning, Kafka, Spring, Java, and J2EE. He also shares his thoughts on his personal blog. You can follow him on Twitter at @mynameisanky. He spends most of his time reading books and playing with different technologies. When not at work, he spends time with his family and friends watching movies and playing games.
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