@Eyad Garelnabi, thanks for your response. ... View more

@Artem Ervits, thanks for your pointed replies giving a lot of clarity. Yes, I do understand this. But, I now need to find a way. There are certain clusters which are HDP 2.4 (for some specific reasons) and so this means that we cannot have data governance through the easier tag based policy approach. Still can do things with Ranger, but it has to be done per service basis. What I like with the tags is that it cuts across the services (hdfs, hive,.....). Even new data that enters can be classified to have the same tag and all the rules of access get automatically inherited. ... View more

@Artem Ervits will definitely submit an article once it is implemented. ... View more

Thanks Artem Ervits. We were considering to extend the HadoopSink class for our purpose - say GangliaSink. The instance of this GangliaSink class will run in each of the machines (similar to the gmond of Ganglia). In this case, we may have to probably install gmetad in one of the machines in the cluster. We will check out the options provided by you too. Thank you so much. ... View more

Thanks @deepak sharma. Any roadmap plans - say we may see this feature in some x.y release in a year or so? ... View more

Thanks Ayub. Yes, this is what I was looking for. ... View more