AWS Administration - The Definitive Guide - Second Edition

Monitoring EMR clusters

The EMR dashboard provides a rich feature set using which you can manage and monitor your EMR clusters all from one place. You can additionally view logs and leverage Amazon CloudWatch as well to track the performance of your cluster.

In this section, we will be looking at a few simple ways using which you can monitor your EMR clusters. To start off, let's look at how to monitor the status of your cluster using the EMR dashboard:

1. From the EMR dashboard, select your cluster name from the cluster list page. This will bring up the newly created cluster's details page. Here, select the Events tab, as shown in the following screenshot:

The Events tab allows you to view the event logged by your cluster. You can use this ...