Apache Ambari

Apache Ambari is an open source software framework for provisioning, managing, and monitoring Hadoop clusters. The following are few highlights of this project:

• Ambari is useful for installing Hadoop services across different nodes of the cluster and handling the configuration of Hadoop Services on the cluster.
• Ambari offers centralized management of the cluster including configuration and re-configuration of services, starting and stopping of cluster and a lot more.
• Ambari offers a dashboard for monitoring the overall health of the cluster.
• Ambari offers alerting and email mechanism to get the required attention when required.
• Ambari offers REST APIs to developers for application integration.

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