Introduction

The Apache Ambari project is aimed at making Hadoop management simpler by developing software for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Apache Hadoop clusters. Ambari provides an intuitive, easy-to-use Hadoop management web UI backed by its RESTful APIs.

The set of Hadoop components that are currently supported by Ambari includes:

HDFS, MapReduce Hive, HCatalog, HBase, ZooKeeper, Oozie, Pig, Sqoop

Ambari enables System Administrators to:

  • Provision a Hadoop Cluster
    • Ambari provides a step-by-step wizard for installing Hadoop services across any number of hosts.
    • Ambari handles configuration of Hadoop services for the cluster.
  • Manage a Hadoop Cluster
    • Ambari provides central management for starting, stopping, and reconfiguring Hadoop services across the entire cluster.
  • Monitor a Hadoop Cluster
    • Ambari provides a dashboard for monitoring health and status of the Hadoop cluster.
    • Ambari leverages Ganglia for metrics collection.
    • Ambari leverages Nagios for system alerting and will send emails when your attention is needed (e.g., a node goes down, remaining disk space is low, etc).

Ambari enables Application Developers and System Integrators to:

  • Easily integrate Hadoop provisioning, management, and monitoring capabilities to their own applications with the Ambari REST APIs.

Getting Started with Ambari

Follow the installation guide for Ambari 1.2.2.

Note: Ambari currently supports 64-bit RHEL/CentOS 5 + 6 and SLES 11.

Get Involved

Visit the Ambari Wiki for design documents, roadmap, development guidelines, etc.

The first Ambari User Group Meetup took place on April 2 in Palo Alto, California, USA. See the slides and WebEx session from the Meetup.

What's New?

Check out the work going on for the upcoming 1.3.0 release.

Disclaimer

Apache Ambari is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) sponsored by the Apache Incubator PMC. Incubation is required of all newly accepted projects until a further review indicates that the infrastructure, communications, and decision making process have stabilized in a manner consistent with other successful ASF projects. While incubation status is not necessarily a reflection of the completeness or stability of the code, it does indicate that the project has yet to be fully endorsed by the ASF.