Workaround for log aggregation bug

[#1]

We have log aggregation enabled in the Yarn configuration for our cluster (yarn.log-aggregation-enable).

But it doesn't seem to work.

When I try to drill into the history of a job in the resource manager GUI, the link for "logs" always takes me to a page that says: "aggregation is not enabled".

I've opened a ticket asking for help on this, and they told us we need to upgrade, so we did, but it didn't help.

I opened another ticket and am currently waiting for a response.

In the meantime, has anyone seen this?

Is there is a known hack to fix it?

Any advice about where to look for the solution?

We're currently on 2.2.8

[#2]

Thanks Ian,

Yes, to anyone experiencing the same behavior and looking for the solution, we simply needed to change the permissions on /mr-history in HDFS. Upgrading the timeline server to 1.5 was not necessary (and I couldn't get it to work).