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HBase Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  HBase Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2012
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849517140
Pages 332 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Yifeng Jiang Yifeng Jiang
Profile icon Yifeng Jiang
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters close

HBase Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Setting Up HBase Cluster 2. Data Migration 3. Using Administration Tools 4. Backing Up and Restoring HBase Data 5. Monitoring and Diagnosis 6. Maintenance and Security 7. Troubleshooting 8. Basic Performance Tuning 9. Advanced Configurations and Tuning

Troubleshooting tools


In order to troubleshoot an HBase cluster, besides a solid knowledge of the cluster you are operating, the tools you use are also important. We would like to recommend the following troubleshooting tools:

  • ps: This can be used to find the top process that used the most memory and CPU

  • ClusterSSH tool: This tool is used to control multiple SSH sessions simultaneously

  • jps: This tool shows the Java processes for the current user

  • jmap: This tool prints the Java heap summary

  • jstat: This is the Java Virtual Machine statistics monitoring tool

  • hbase hbck: This tool is used for checking and repairing region consistency and table integrity

  • hadoop fsck: This tool is used for checking HDFS consistency

We will describe sample usage of these tools, in this recipe.

Getting ready

Start your HBase cluster.

How to do it...

The following are the troubleshooting tools we will describe:

  • ps: This tool is used to find the top processes that occupied large amounts of memory. The following...

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