Delete application logs from spark history specifying date

[#1]

from

hdfs dfs -du -h /

we see that spark history take a lot space from HDFS

I want delete only some that I specified for example all that are of the year 2019 and 2019, and keep the rest.

If I use the command
hdfs dfs -rm -R /spark2-history/*

this delete all and I want not delete all.

Thanks

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi @Emanuel_MXN 

Generally not recommended to keep event logs older than some days/months. In your case, you are keeping logs for years. 

To avoid keeping the old logs, please add the following parameters to the spark-defaults.conf file and delete old event logs based on your need.

spark.history.fs.cleaner.enabled true
spark.history.fs.cleaner.maxAge  7d
spark.history.fs.cleaner.interval 1h

I don't have any handy script to delete files from hdfs for specific date/year. If i found definetely i will share it here.

[#3]

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