Oozie service check runs mapreduce action, sometimes because of lack of available resources on Yarn cluster, script times out.
RESOLUTION:
Increase the service check script timeout by following below steps:
1. Please SSH to Ambari server host 2. Navigate to /var/lib/ambari-server/resources/common-services/OOZIE/4.0.0.2.0/package/scripts 3. Backup service_check.py to some other location ( e.g. /root/ )
4. Edit service_check.py and increase sleep/retires value