How to access Hadoop counters values via API?

Question

In Hadoop we can increment counter in map/reduce task, it looks like this:

...
context.getCounter(MyCountersEnum.SomeCounter).increment(1);
...

Than you can find their value in log.

How do you access them from code after job completes?

What is Hadoop API to read counter value?

Answer 1

Counters represent global counters, defined either by the Map-Reduce framework or applications.

Each Counter can be of any Enum type. You can define counter as an enum in Driver class

static enum UpdateCount{
  CNT
 }

And then increment the counter in map/reduce task

public class CntReducer extends Reducer<IntWritable, Text, IntWritable, Text>{
 public void reduce(IntWritable key,Iterable<Text> values,Context context)  {
      //do something
      context.getCounter(UpdateCount.CNT).increment(1);
 }
}

and access them in Driver class

public int run(String[] args) throws Exception {
 .
 .
 .
 job.setInputFormatClass(TextInputFormat.class);
 job.setOutputFormatClass(TextOutputFormat.class);
 FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(job,in );
 FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(job, out);
 job.waitForCompletion(true);
 c = job.getCounters().findCounter(UpdateCount.CNT).getValue();
 //Print "c"
 }
}

c gives the counter value.

You can find an example here

Answer 2

I just found the answer here.

You need a job object to access the counters:

Counters counters = job.getCounters();
Counter counter = counters.findCounter(MyCountersEnum.SomeCounter);
System.out.println(counter.getDisplayName() + ": " + counter.getValue());