Support Video: How to read Zookeeper transaction logs and Snapshots?

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The Zookeeper transaction logs and Snapshots files are not human readable by default. Running a cat command on these files do not give clear information on the content of the files.

The following video explains how to read Zookeeper transaction logs and Snapshots?

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To view the content of these files, use the following:

To read the snapshots:

java -cp /usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server/zookeeper.jar:/usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server/lib/* 
org.apache.zookeeper.server.SnapshotFormatter <Snapshot file name>

To read the transaction logs:

java -cp /usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server/zookeeper.jar:/usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server/lib/* 
org.apache.zookeeper.server.LogFormatter <Log file name>

The classes that need to be used are located under /usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server and /usr/hdp/current/zookeeper-server/lib.