I have also received the same error. 2018-05-03 15:23:01,869 ERROR [xxxxxxxx.eastus.cloudapp.azure.com,16000,1525360743919_ChoreService_1] master.BackupLogCleaner: Failed to get hbase:backup table, therefore will keep all files I've observed that upon start/ restart, Active HBase Master are turning into Secondary HBase Master and then getting Stopped. Garbage Collection log is showing below message: Memory: 4k page, physical 8157984k(4535280k free), swap 0k(0k free) CommandLine flags: -XX:ErrorFile=/var/log/hbase/hs_err_pid%p.log -XX:InitialHeapSize=130527744 -XX:MaxHeapSize=1073741824 -XX:MaxNewSize=174485504 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=6 -XX:OldPLABSize=16 -XX:OnOutOfMemoryError=kill -9 %p -XX:+PrintGC -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCTimeStamps -XX:+UseCompressedClassPointers -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseParNewGC 2018-05-08T09:59:21.106+0000: 0.786: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2018-05-08T09:59:21.106+0000: 0.786: [ParNew: 34432K->4288K(38720K), 0.0066260 secs] 34432K->5497K(124736K), 0.0067169 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs] 2018-05-08T09:59:21.819+0000: 1.500: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2018-05-08T09:59:21.819+0000: 1.500: [ParNew: 38720K->3327K(38720K), 0.0128638 secs] 39929K->6553K(124736K), 0.0129458 secs] [Times: user=0.02 sys=0.01, real=0.01 secs] 2018-05-08T09:59:22.098+0000: 1.778: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2018-05-08T09:59:22.098+0000: 1.778: [ParNew: 37759K->4287K(38720K), 0.0067072 secs] 40985K->10042K(124736K), 0.0067618 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.01 secs] 2018-05-08T09:59:22.457+0000: 2.137: [GC (Allocation Failure) 2018-05-08T09:59:22.457+0000: 2.137: [ParNew: 38719K->3036K(38720K), 0.0071463 secs] 44474K->9248K(124736K), 0.0072080 secs] [Times: user=0.01 sys=0.00, real=0.00 secs] Please share your comments if you've already found out the resolution for this issue. ... View more