Counters, status, and other output
At the end of every MapReducejob, we see output related to counters such as the following output:
12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: Counters: 22 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: Job Counters 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: Launched reduce tasks=1 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: Launched map tasks=18 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: Data-local map tasks=18 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: SkippingTaskCounters 12/02/12 06:28:51 INFO mapred.JobClient: MapProcessedRecords=61393 …
It is possible to add user-defined counters that will likewise be aggregated from all tasks and reported in this final output as well as in the MapReduce web UI.