Service Monitor Health Checks

Service Monitor File Descriptors

This Service Monitor health check checks that the number of file descriptors used does not rise above some percentage of the Service Monitor file descriptor limit. A failure of this health check may indicate a bug in either Hadoop or Cloudera Manager. Contact Cloudera support. This test can be configured using the File Descriptor Monitoring Thresholds Service Monitor monitoring setting.

Short Name: File Descriptors

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
File Descriptor Monitoring Thresholds The health check thresholds of the number of file descriptors used. Specified as a percentage of file descriptor limit. servicemonitor_fd_thresholds critical:70.000000, warning:50.000000 PERCENT

Service Monitor Host Health

This Service Monitor health check factors in the health of the host upon which the Service Monitor is running. A failure of this check means that the host running the Service Monitor is experiencing some problem. See that host's status page for more details.This test can be enabled or disabled using the Service Monitor Host Health Check Service Monitor monitoring setting.

Short Name: Host Health

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Service Monitor Host Health Check When computing the overall Service Monitor health, consider the host's health. servicemonitor_host_health_enabled true no unit

Service Monitor Log Directory Free Space

This Service Monitor health check checks that the filesystem containing the log directory of this Service Monitor has sufficient free space. This test can be configured using the Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds and Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Percentage Thresholds Service Monitor monitoring settings.

Short Name: Log Directory Free Space

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds The health check thresholds for monitoring of free space on the filesystem that contains this role's log directory. log_directory_free_space_absolute_thresholds critical:5368709120.000000, warning:10737418240.000000 BYTES
Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Percentage Thresholds The health check thresholds for monitoring of free space on the filesystem that contains this role's log directory. Specified as a percentage of the capacity on that filesystem. This setting is not used if a Log Directory Free Space Monitoring Absolute Thresholds setting is configured. log_directory_free_space_percentage_thresholds critical:never, warning:never PERCENT

Service Monitor Process Status

This Service Monitor health check checks that the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Service Monitor host is heart beating correctly and that the process associated with the Service Monitor role is in the state expected by Cloudera Manager. A failure of this health check may indicate a problem with the Service Monitor process, a lack of connectivity to the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Service Monitor host, or a problem with the Cloudera Manager Agent. This check can fail either because the Service Monitor has crashed or because the Service Monitor will not start or stop in a timely fashion. Check the Service Monitor logs for more details. If the check fails because of problems communicating with the Cloudera Manager Agent on the Service Monitor host, check the status of the Cloudera Manager Agent by running /etc/init.d/cloudera-scm-agent status on the Service Monitor host, or look in the Cloudera Manager Agent logs on the Service Monitor host for more details. This test can be enabled or disabled using the Service Monitor Process Health Check Service Monitor monitoring setting.

Short Name: Process Status

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Service Monitor Process Health Check Enables the health check that the Service Monitor's process state is consistent with the role configuration servicemonitor_scm_health_enabled true no unit

Service Monitor Role Pipeline

This Service Monitor health check checks that no messages are being dropped by the role stage of the Service Monitor pipeline. A failure of this health check indicates a problem with the Service Monitor. This may indicate a configuration problem or a bug in the Service Monitor. This test can be configured using the Service Monitor Role Pipeline Monitoring Time Period monitoring setting.

Short Name: Role Pipeline

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Service Monitor Role Pipeline Monitoring Thresholds The health check thresholds for monitoring the Service Monitor role pipeline. This specifies the number of dropped messages that will be tolerated over the monitoring time period. servicemonitor_role_pipeline_thresholds critical:any, warning:never no unit
Service Monitor Role Pipeline Monitoring Time Period The time period over which the Service Monitor role pipeline will be monitored for dropped messages. servicemonitor_role_pipeline_window 5 MINUTES

Service Monitor Unexpected Exits

This Service Monitor health check checks that the Service Monitor has not recently exited unexpectedly. The check returns "Bad" health if the number of unexpected exits goes above a critical threshold. For example, if this check is configured with a critical threshold of 1, this check would return "Good" health if there have been no unexpected exits recently. If there has been 1 or more unexpected exits recently, this check would return "Bad" health. This test can be configured using the Unexpected Exits Thresholds and Unexpected Exits Monitoring Period Service Monitor monitoring settings.

Short Name: Unexpected Exits

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Unexpected Exits Monitoring Period The period to review when computing unexpected exits. unexpected_exits_window 5 MINUTES
Unexpected Exits Thresholds The health check thresholds for unexpected exits encountered within a recent period specified by the unexpected_exits_window configuration for the role. unexpected_exits_thresholds critical:any, warning:never no unit

Service Monitor Web Server Status

This Service Monitor health check checks that the web server of the Service Monitor is responding quickly to requests by the Cloudera Manager agent, and that the Cloudera Manager agent can collect metrics from the web server. A failure of this health check may indicate a problem with the web server of the Service Monitor, a misconfiguration of the Service Monitor or a problem with the Cloudera Manager agent. Consult the Cloudera Manager agent logs and the logs of the Service Monitor for more detail. If the test's failure message indicates a communication problem, this means that the Cloudera Manager Agent's HTTP requests to the Service Monitor's web server are failing or timing out. These requests are completely local to the Service Monitor's host, and so should never fail under normal conditions. If the test's failure message indicates an unexpected response, then the Service Monitor's web server responded to the Cloudera Manager Agent's request, but the Cloudera Manager Agent could not interpret the response for some reason. This test can be configured using the Web Metric Collection Service Monitor monitoring setting.

Short Name: Web Server Status

Property Name Description Template Name Default Value Unit
Web Metric Collection Enables the health check that the Cloudera Manager Agent can successfully contact and gather metrics from the web server. servicemonitor_web_metric_collection_enabled true no unit