I've seen it depends on the services that are failling. E.g. Below steps worked for me when HDFS or Node Manager giving mentioned message, but when I have all servicies stopped due to this message in a single node it does not work (I am figuring out how to). ambari-agent stop mv /var/lib/ambari-agent/data/structured-out-status.json /var/lib/ambari-agent/data/structured-out-status.json-old ambari-agent start Regards! ... View more