Custom morphline commands can maintain state if you need to, so, in principle, it is possible. ... View more

The log file will be on the remote hosts that ran the map tasks, not on the host that started the map reduce driver. Wolfgang ... View more

Custom morphline commands are deployed by adding the jar with the custom code to the hbase-indexer Java classpath. The morphline runs inside the hbase-indexer processes which are separate from the hbase processes. It has no impact on the stability of the hbase service. ... View more

Maybe readAvroContainer fails because your avro data isn't contained in an avro container, in which case use readAvro command instead of readAvroContainer. In any case, to automatically print diagnostic information such as the content of records as they pass through the morphline commands, consider enabling TRACE log level, for example by adding the following line to your log4j.properties file: log4j.logger.org.kitesdk.morphline=TRACE See http://kitesdk.org/docs/current/morphlines/morphlines-reference-guide.html#logTrace This will also print which command failed where. BTW, questions specific to Cloudera Search are best directed to search-user@cloudera.org via http://groups.google.com/a/cloudera.org/group/search-user Wolfgang ... View more