can't get critical alerts from a dashboard

[#1]

Hello!
I'm using CM api v19
I'm trying to get only critical alerts which I'm looking at right now (RED ones).

Tried https://cloudera.github.io/cm_api/apidocs/v19/path__events.html

/api/v19/events?query=category==HEALTH_EVENT;severity=CRITICAL

 The output consists of too many not relevant events. What should I do to get only critical events displayed on the dashboard?
Thank you.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

Hi, @hamsterrrrr ,

Could you please check (and share) status for each one of the roles in the HDFS service?

The endpoint /api/v40/clusters/cluster/services/hdfs/roles  should give you this data.

I'd like to understand what's the underlying issue in this case.

André

[#3]

Hi, @hamsterrrrr ,

Those events represent the point-in-time occurrence when the alert was thrown. They don't tell you the current issues with the cluster, which is what you see in the UI.

I don't think the REST API has an endpoint that gives you that list directly, but it's pretty easy to find out.

In the results of the /clusters/{cluster}/services endpoint, look for services with the status = BAD or health checks with summary = BAD. For example:

{
  "items": [
    {
      "name": "impala",
      "type": "IMPALA",
      "healthSummary": "BAD",                 <<--- this
      "healthChecks": [
        ...
        {
          "name": "IMPALA_IMPALADS_HEALTHY",
          "summary": "BAD",                   <<--- or this
          "suppressed": false
        },
        ...
      ],
      ...
    }
  ]
}

Cheers,

André

[#4]

Hello, André
Thanky you for yoir quick reply.
So you are saying that by using api there is no way to find out what exactly is going on with claster? All we can get is just summary like GOOD\BAD of each service? And based on this we should conduct the further investigation by means of GUI?

[#5]

I'm saying that because the command you are talking about says that overall state of the service HDFS is good, all components of it are GOOD, while in the GUI I still can see one red red Bad health Data DIrectory  Status bad health event, while overall status of HDFS is shown as GOOD(green).
Long story short, I just want to get this event via API call. Is that possible?

overall service state is good, but there is a critical eventthis critical event

clusters/cluster/services/hdfs'|jq .

{

  "name": "hdfs",

  "type": "HDFS",

  "clusterRef": {

    "clusterName": "cluster"

  },

  "serviceUrl,

  "roleInstancesUrl":,

  "serviceState": "STARTED",

  "healthSummary": "GOOD",

  "healthChecks": [

    {

      "name": "HDFS_BLOCKS_WITH_CORRUPT_REPLICAS",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_CANARY_HEALTH",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_DATA_NODES_HEALTHY",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_FAILOVER_CONTROLLERS_HEALTHY",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_FREE_SPACE_REMAINING",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_HA_NAMENODE_HEALTH",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_MISSING_BLOCKS",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    },

    {

      "name": "HDFS_UNDER_REPLICATED_BLOCKS",

      "summary": "GOOD",

      "suppressed": false

    }

  ],

  "configStalenessStatus": "FRESH",

  "clientConfigStalenessStatus": "FRESH",

  "maintenanceMode": false,

  "maintenanceOwners": [],

  "displayName": "HDFS",

  "entityStatus": "GOOD_HEALTH"

}

[#6 · Accepted solution]

Hi, @hamsterrrrr ,

Could you please check (and share) status for each one of the roles in the HDFS service?

The endpoint /api/v40/clusters/cluster/services/hdfs/roles  should give you this data.

I'd like to understand what's the underlying issue in this case.

André

[#7 · Accepted solution]

Thank you! Looks like what I wanted.