YARN Commands

Overview

YARN commands are invoked by the bin/yarn script. Running the yarn script without any arguments prints the description for all commands.

Usage: yarn [--config confdir] COMMAND [--loglevel loglevel] [GENERIC_OPTIONS] [COMMAND_OPTIONS]

YARN has an option parsing framework that employs parsing generic options as well as running classes.

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
--config confdir Overwrites the default Configuration directory. Default is ${HADOOP_PREFIX}/conf.
--loglevel loglevel Overwrites the log level. Valid log levels are FATAL, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, and TRACE. Default is INFO.
GENERIC_OPTIONS The common set of options supported by multiple commands. See the Hadoop Commands Manual for more information.
COMMAND COMMAND_OPTIONS Various commands with their options are described in the following sections. The commands have been grouped into User Commands and Administration Commands.

User Commands

Commands useful for users of a Hadoop cluster.

application

Usage: yarn application [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-appStates <States> Works with -list to filter applications based on input comma-separated list of application states. The valid application state can be one of the following:  ALL, NEW, NEW_SAVING, SUBMITTED, ACCEPTED, RUNNING, FINISHED, FAILED, KILLED
-appTypes <Types> Works with -list to filter applications based on input comma-separated list of application types.
-list Lists applications from the RM. Supports optional use of -appTypes to filter applications based on application type, and -appStates to filter applications based on application state.
-kill <ApplicationId> Kills the application.
-status <ApplicationId> Prints the status of the application.

Prints application(s) report/kill application

applicationattempt

Usage: yarn applicationattempt [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-help Help
-list <ApplicationId> Lists applications attempts for the given application.
-status <Application Attempt Id> Prints the status of the application attempt.

prints applicationattempt(s) report

classpath

Usage: yarn classpath

Prints the class path needed to get the Hadoop jar and the required libraries

container

Usage: yarn container [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-help Help
-list <Application Attempt Id> Lists containers for the application attempt.
-status <ContainerId> Prints the status of the container.

prints container(s) report

jar

Usage: yarn jar <jar> [mainClass] args...

Runs a jar file. Users can bundle their YARN code in a jar file and execute it using this command.

logs

Usage: yarn logs -applicationId <application ID> [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-applicationId <application ID> Specifies an application id
-appOwner <AppOwner> AppOwner (assumed to be current user if not specified)
-containerId <ContainerId> ContainerId (must be specified if node address is specified)
-help Help
-nodeAddress <NodeAddress> NodeAddress in the format nodename:port (must be specified if container id is specified)

Dump the container logs

node

Usage: yarn node [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-all Works with -list to list all nodes.
-list Lists all running nodes. Supports optional use of -states to filter nodes based on node state, and -all to list all nodes.
-states <States> Works with -list to filter nodes based on input comma-separated list of node states.
-status <NodeId> Prints the status report of the node.

Prints node report(s)

queue

Usage: yarn queue [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-help Help
-status <QueueName> Prints the status of the queue.

Prints queue information

version

Usage: yarn version

Prints the Hadoop version.

Administration Commands

Commands useful for administrators of a Hadoop cluster.

daemonlog

Usage:

   yarn daemonlog -getlevel <host:httpport> <classname> 
   yarn daemonlog -setlevel <host:httpport> <classname> <level>
COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-getlevel <host:httpport> <classname> Prints the log level of the log identified by a qualified <classname>, in the daemon running at <host:httpport>. This command internally connects to http://<host:httpport>/logLevel?log=<classname>
-setlevel <host:httpport> <classname> <level> Sets the log level of the log identified by a qualified <classname> in the daemon running at <host:httpport>. This command internally connects to http://<host:httpport>/logLevel?log=<classname>&level=<level>

Get/Set the log level for a Log identified by a qualified class name in the daemon.

Example: $ bin/yarn daemonlog -setlevel 127.0.0.1:8088 org.apache.hadoop.yarn.server.resourcemanager.rmapp.RMAppImpl DEBUG

nodemanager

Usage: yarn nodemanager

Start the NodeManager

proxyserver

Usage: yarn proxyserver

Start the web proxy server

resourcemanager

Usage: yarn resourcemanager [-format-state-store]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-format-state-store Formats the RMStateStore. This will clear the RMStateStore and is useful if past applications are no longer needed. This should be run only when the ResourceManager is not running.

Start the ResourceManager

rmadmin

Usage:

  yarn rmadmin [-refreshQueues]
               [-refreshNodes]
               [-refreshUserToGroupsMapping] 
               [-refreshSuperUserGroupsConfiguration]
               [-refreshAdminAcls] 
               [-refreshServiceAcl]
               [-getGroups [username]]
               [-transitionToActive [--forceactive] [--forcemanual] <serviceId>]
               [-transitionToStandby [--forcemanual] <serviceId>]
               [-failover [--forcefence] [--forceactive] <serviceId1> <serviceId2>]
               [-getServiceState <serviceId>]
               [-checkHealth <serviceId>]
               [-help [cmd]]
COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-refreshQueues Reload the queues’ acls, states and scheduler specific properties. ResourceManager will reload the mapred-queues configuration file.
-refreshNodes Refresh the hosts information at the ResourceManager.
-refreshUserToGroupsMappings Refresh user-to-groups mappings.
-refreshSuperUserGroupsConfiguration Refresh superuser proxy groups mappings.
-refreshAdminAcls Refresh acls for administration of ResourceManager
-refreshServiceAcl Reload the service-level authorization policy file ResourceManager will reload the authorization policy file.
-getGroups [username] Get groups the specified user belongs to.
-transitionToActive [–forceactive] [–forcemanual] <serviceId> Transitions the service into Active state. Try to make the target active without checking that there is no active node if the –forceactive option is used. This command can not be used if automatic failover is enabled. Though you can override this by –forcemanual option, you need caution.
-transitionToStandby [–forcemanual] <serviceId> Transitions the service into Standby state. This command can not be used if automatic failover is enabled. Though you can override this by –forcemanual option, you need caution.
-failover [–forceactive] <serviceId1> <serviceId2> Initiate a failover from serviceId1 to serviceId2. Try to failover to the target service even if it is not ready if the –forceactive option is used. This command can not be used if automatic failover is enabled.
-getServiceState <serviceId> Returns the state of the service.
-checkHealth <serviceId> Requests that the service perform a health check. The RMAdmin tool will exit with a non-zero exit code if the check fails.
-help [cmd] Displays help for the given command or all commands if none is specified.

Runs ResourceManager admin client

scmadmin

Usage: yarn scmadmin [options]

COMMAND_OPTIONS Description
-help Help
-runCleanerTask Runs the cleaner task

Runs Shared Cache Manager admin client

sharedcachemanager

Usage: yarn sharedcachemanager

Start the Shared Cache Manager

timelineserver

Usage: yarn timelineserver

Start the TimeLineServer