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+    <p><a href="/docs/unreleased/">Accumulo unreleased docs</a> &nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp; Administration &nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp; Tracing</p>
+    
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+
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+
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+      <div class="col-md-10"><h1>Tracing</h1></div>
+      <div class="col-md-2"><a class="pull-right" style="margin-top: 25px;" href="https://github.com/apache/accumulo-website/edit/master/_docs-unreleased/administration/tracing.md" role="button"><i class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"></i> <small>Edit this page</small></a></div>
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+    <p>It can be difficult to determine why some operations are taking longer
+than expected. For example, you may be looking up items with very low
+latency, but sometimes the lookups take much longer. Determining the
+cause of the delay is difficult because the system is distributed, and
+the typical lookup is fast.</p>
+
+<p>Accumulo has been instrumented to record the time that various
+operations take when tracing is turned on. The fact that tracing is
+enabled follows all the requests made on behalf of the user throughout
+the distributed infrastructure of accumulo, and across all threads of
+execution.</p>
+
+<p>These time spans will be inserted into the <code class="highlighter-rouge">trace</code> table in
+Accumulo. You can browse recent traces from the Accumulo monitor
+page. You can also read the <code class="highlighter-rouge">trace</code> table directly like any
+other table.</p>
+
+<p>The design of Accumulo’s distributed tracing follows that of <a href="http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36356.html">Google’s Dapper</a>.</p>
+
+<h2 id="tracers">Tracers</h2>
+
+<p>To collect traces, Accumulo needs at least one tracer server running. If you are using <code class="highlighter-rouge">accumulo-cluster</code> to start your cluster,
+configure your server in <code class="highlighter-rouge">conf/tracers</code>. The server collects traces from clients and writes them to the <code class="highlighter-rouge">trace</code> table. The Accumulo
+user that the tracer connects to Accumulo with can be configured with the following properties (see the <a href="/docs/unreleased/administration/configuration-management">configuration management</a> 
+page for setting Accumulo server properties)</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>trace.user
+trace.token.property.password
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Other tracer configuration properties include</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>trace.port.client - port tracer listens on
+trace.table - table tracer writes to
+trace.zookeeper.path - zookeeper path where tracers register
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The zookeeper path is configured to /tracers by default.  If
+multiple Accumulo instances are sharing the same ZooKeeper
+quorum, take care to configure Accumulo with unique values for
+this property.</p>
+
+<h2 id="configuring-tracing">Configuring Tracing</h2>
+
+<p>Traces are collected via SpanReceivers. The default SpanReceiver
+configured is org.apache.accumulo.core.trace.ZooTraceClient, which
+sends spans to an Accumulo Tracer process, as discussed in the
+previous section. This default can be changed to a different span
+receiver, or additional span receivers can be added in a
+comma-separated list, by modifying the property</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>trace.span.receivers
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Individual span receivers may require their own configuration
+parameters, which are grouped under the trace.span.receiver.*
+prefix.  ZooTraceClient uses the following properties.  The first
+three properties are populated from other Accumulo properties,
+while the remaining ones should be prefixed with
+trace.span.receiver. when set in the Accumulo configuration.</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>tracer.zookeeper.host - populated from instance.zookeepers
+tracer.zookeeper.timeout - populated from instance.zookeeper.timeout
+tracer.zookeeper.path - populated from trace.zookeeper.path
+tracer.send.timer.millis - timer for flushing send queue (in ms, default 1000)
+tracer.queue.size - max queue size (default 5000)
+tracer.span.min.ms - minimum span length to store (in ms, default 1)
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Note that to configure an Accumulo client for tracing, including
+the Accumulo shell, the client configuration must be given the same
+trace.span.receivers, trace.span.receiver.*, and trace.zookeeper.path
+properties as the servers have.</p>
+
+<p>Hadoop can also be configured to send traces to Accumulo, as of
+Hadoop 2.6.0, by setting properties in Hadoop’s core-site.xml
+file.  Instead of using the trace.span.receiver.* prefix, Hadoop
+uses hadoop.htrace.*.  The Hadoop configuration does not have
+access to Accumulo’s properties, so the
+hadoop.htrace.tracer.zookeeper.host property must be specified.
+The zookeeper timeout defaults to 30000 (30 seconds), and the
+zookeeper path defaults to /tracers.  An example of configuring
+Hadoop to send traces to ZooTraceClient is</p>
+
+<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>hadoop.htrace.spanreceiver.classes<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>org.apache.accumulo.core.trace.ZooTraceClient<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>hadoop.htrace.tracer.zookeeper.host<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>zookeeperHost:2181<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>hadoop.htrace.tracer.zookeeper.path<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>/tracers<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>hadoop.htrace.tracer.span.min.ms<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>1<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The accumulo-core, accumulo-tracer, accumulo-fate and libthrift
+jars must also be placed on Hadoop’s classpath.</p>
+
+<h3 id="adding-additional-spanreceivers">Adding additional SpanReceivers</h3>
+
+<p><a href="https://github.com/openzipkin/zipkin">Zipkin</a> has a SpanReceiver supported by HTrace and popularized by Twitter
+that users looking for a more graphical trace display may opt to use.
+The following steps configure Accumulo to use <code class="highlighter-rouge">org.apache.htrace.impl.ZipkinSpanReceiver</code>
+in addition to the Accumulo’s default ZooTraceClient, and they serve as a template
+for adding any SpanReceiver to Accumulo:</p>
+
+<ol>
+  <li>
+    <p>Add the Jar containing the ZipkinSpanReceiver class file to the
+<code class="highlighter-rouge">lib/</code> directory.  It is critical that the Jar is placed in
+<code class="highlighter-rouge">lib/</code> and NOT in <code class="highlighter-rouge">lib/ext/</code> so that the new SpanReceiver class
+is visible to the same class loader of htrace-core.</p>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <p>Add the following to <code class="highlighter-rouge">accumulo-site.xml</code>:</p>
+
+    <div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code> &lt;property&gt;
+   &lt;name&gt;trace.span.receivers&lt;/name&gt;
+   &lt;value&gt;org.apache.accumulo.tracer.ZooTraceClient,org.apache.htrace.impl.ZipkinSpanReceiver&lt;/value&gt;
+ &lt;/property&gt;
+</code></pre>
+    </div>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <p>Restart your Accumulo tablet servers.</p>
+  </li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>In order to use ZipkinSpanReceiver from a client as well as the Accumulo server,</p>
+
+<ol>
+  <li>
+    <p>Ensure your client can see the ZipkinSpanReceiver class at runtime. For Maven projects,
+this is easily done by adding to your client’s pom.xml (taking care to specify a good version)</p>
+
+    <div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code> &lt;dependency&gt;
+   &lt;groupId&gt;org.apache.htrace&lt;/groupId&gt;
+   &lt;artifactId&gt;htrace-zipkin&lt;/artifactId&gt;
+   &lt;version&gt;3.1.0-incubating&lt;/version&gt;
+   &lt;scope&gt;runtime&lt;/scope&gt;
+ &lt;/dependency&gt;
+</code></pre>
+    </div>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <p>Add the following to your client configuration.</p>
+
+    <div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code> trace.span.receivers=org.apache.accumulo.tracer.ZooTraceClient,org.apache.htrace.impl.ZipkinSpanReceiver
+</code></pre>
+    </div>
+  </li>
+  <li>
+    <p>Instrument your client as in the next section.</p>
+  </li>
+</ol>
+
+<p>Your SpanReceiver may require additional properties, and if so these should likewise
+be placed in the ClientConfiguration (if applicable) and Accumulo’s <code class="highlighter-rouge">accumulo-site.xml</code>.
+Two such properties for ZipkinSpanReceiver, listed with their default values, are</p>
+
+<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>trace.span.receiver.zipkin.collector-hostname<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>localhost<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;property&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;name&gt;</span>trace.span.receiver.zipkin.collector-port<span class="nt">&lt;/name&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;value&gt;</span>9410<span class="nt">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="instrumenting-a-client">Instrumenting a Client</h3>
+
+<p>Tracing can be used to measure a client operation, such as a scan, as
+the operation traverses the distributed system. To enable tracing for
+your application call</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.core.trace.DistributedTrace</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">DistributedTrace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">enable</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">hostname</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"myApplication"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="c1">// do some tracing</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">DistributedTrace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">disable</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Once tracing has been enabled, a client can wrap an operation in a trace.</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.htrace.Sampler</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.htrace.Trace</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.htrace.TraceScope</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">scope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Client Scan"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">Sampler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">ALWAYS</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="n">BatchScanner</span> <span class="n">scanner</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">conn</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createBatchScanner</span><span class="o">(...);</span>
+<span class="c1">// Configure your scanner</span>
+<span class="k">for</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">Entry</span> <span class="n">entry</span> <span class="o">:</span> <span class="n">scanner</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+<span class="o">}</span>
+<span class="n">scope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The user can create additional Spans within a Trace.</p>
+
+<p>The sampler (such as <code class="highlighter-rouge">Sampler.ALWAYS</code>) for the trace should only be specified with a top-level span,
+and subsequent spans will be collected depending on whether that first span was sampled.
+Don’t forget to specify a Sampler at the top-level span
+because the default Sampler only samples when part of a pre-existing trace,
+which will never occur in a client that never specifies a Sampler.</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">scope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Client Update"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">Sampler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">ALWAYS</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">readScope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Read"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">readScope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="o">();</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">writeScope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Write"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">writeScope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="o">();</span>
+<span class="n">scope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Like Dapper, Accumulo tracing supports user defined annotations to associate additional data with a Trace.
+Checking whether currently tracing is necessary when using a sampler other than Sampler.ALWAYS.</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="kt">int</span> <span class="n">numberOfEntriesRead</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">readScope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Read"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="c1">// Do the read, update the counter</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="k">if</span> <span class="o">(</span><span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">isTracing</span><span class="o">)</span>
+  <span class="n">readScope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getSpan</span><span class="o">().</span><span class="na">addKVAnnotation</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Number of Entries Read"</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getBytes</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">StandardCharsets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">UTF_8</span><span class="o">),</span>
+      <span class="n">String</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">valueOf</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">numberOfEntriesRead</span><span class="o">).</span><span class="na">getBytes</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">StandardCharsets</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">UTF_8</span><span class="o">));</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>It is also possible to add timeline annotations to your spans.
+This associates a string with a given timestamp between the start and stop times for a span.</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">writeScope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getSpan</span><span class="o">().</span><span class="na">addTimelineAnnotation</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Initiating Flush"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Some client operations may have a high volume within your
+application. As such, you may wish to only sample a percentage of
+operations for tracing. As seen below, the CountSampler can be used to
+help enable tracing for 1-in-1000 operations</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.htrace.impl.CountSampler</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">Sampler</span> <span class="n">sampler</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">CountSampler</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">HTraceConfiguration</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">fromMap</span><span class="o">(</span>
+    <span class="n">Collections</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">singletonMap</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">CountSampler</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">SAMPLER_FREQUENCY_CONF_KEY</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"1000"</span><span class="o">)));</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">TraceScope</span> <span class="n">readScope</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">Trace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">startSpan</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"Read"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">sampler</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="o">...</span>
+<span class="n">readScope</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">close</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Remember to close all spans and disable tracing when finished.</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">DistributedTrace</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">disable</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h2 id="viewing-collected-traces">Viewing Collected Traces</h2>
+
+<p>To view collected traces, use the “Recent Traces” link on the Monitor
+UI. You can also programmatically access and print traces using the
+<code class="highlighter-rouge">TraceDump</code> class.</p>
+
+<h3 id="trace-table-format">Trace Table Format</h3>
+
+<p>This section is for developers looking to use data recorded in the trace table
+directly, above and beyond the default services of the Accumulo monitor.
+Please note the trace table format and its supporting classes
+are not in the public API and may be subject to change in future versions.</p>
+
+<p>Each span received by a tracer’s ZooTraceClient is recorded in the trace table
+in the form of three entries: span entries, index entries, and start time entries.
+Span and start time entries record full span information,
+whereas index entries provide indexing into span information
+useful for quickly finding spans by type or start time.</p>
+
+<p>Each entry is illustrated by a description and sample of data.
+In the description, a token in quotes is a String literal,
+whereas other other tokens are span variables.
+Parentheses group parts together, to distinguish colon characters inside the
+column family or qualifier from the colon that separates column family and qualifier.
+We use the format <code class="highlighter-rouge">row columnFamily:columnQualifier columnVisibility    value</code>
+(omitting timestamp which records the time an entry is written to the trace table).</p>
+
+<p>Span entries take the following form:</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>traceId        "span":(parentSpanId:spanId)            []    spanBinaryEncoding
+63b318de80de96d1 span:4b8f66077df89de1:3778c6739afe4e1 []    %18;%09;...
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The parentSpanId is “” for the root span of a trace.
+The spanBinaryEncoding is a compact Apache Thrift encoding of the original Span object.
+This allows clients (and the Accumulo monitor) to recover all the details of the original Span
+at a later time, by scanning the trace table and decoding the value of span entries
+via <code class="highlighter-rouge">TraceFormatter.getRemoteSpan(entry)</code>.</p>
+
+<p>The trace table has a formatter class by default (org.apache.accumulo.tracer.TraceFormatter)
+that changes how span entries appear from the Accumulo shell.
+Normal scans to the trace table do not use this formatter representation;
+it exists only to make span entries easier to view inside the Accumulo shell.</p>
+
+<p>Index entries take the following form:</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>"idx":service:startTime description:sender  []    traceId:elapsedTime
+idx:tserver:14f3828f58b startScan:localhost []    63b318de80de96d1:1
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The service and sender are set by the first call of each Accumulo process
+(and instrumented client processes) to <code class="highlighter-rouge">DistributedTrace.enable(...)</code>
+(the sender is autodetected if not specified).
+The description is specified in each span.
+Start time and the elapsed time (start - stop, 1 millisecond in the example above)
+are recorded in milliseconds as long values serialized to a string in hex.</p>
+
+<p>Start time entries take the following form:</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>"start":startTime "id":traceId        []    spanBinaryEncoding
+start:14f3828a351 id:63b318de80de96d1 []    %18;%09;...
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>The following classes may be run while Accumulo is running to provide insight into trace statistics. These require
+accumulo-trace-VERSION.jar to be provided on the Accumulo classpath (<code class="highlighter-rouge">lib/ext</code> is fine).</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>$ accumulo org.apache.accumulo.tracer.TraceTableStats -u username -p password -i instancename
+$ accumulo org.apache.accumulo.tracer.TraceDump -u username -p password -i instancename -r
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="tracing-from-the-shell">Tracing from the Shell</h3>
+<p>You can enable tracing for operations run from the shell by using the
+<code class="highlighter-rouge">trace on</code> and <code class="highlighter-rouge">trace off</code> commands.</p>
+
+<div class="highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code>root@test test&gt; trace on
+
+root@test test&gt; scan
+a b:c []    d
+
+root@test test&gt; trace off
+Waiting for trace information
+Waiting for trace information
+Trace started at 2013/08/26 13:24:08.332
+Time  Start  Service@Location       Name
+ 3628+0      shell@localhost shell:root
+    8+1690     shell@localhost scan
+    7+1691       shell@localhost scan:location
+    6+1692         tserver@localhost startScan
+    5+1692           tserver@localhost tablet read ahead 6
+</code></pre>
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+    <p>Accumulo has several tools that can help developers test their code.</p>
+
+<h2 id="miniaccumulocluster">MiniAccumuloCluster</h2>
+
+<p><a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-minicluster/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/minicluster/MiniAccumuloCluster.html">MiniAccumuloCluster</a> is a standalone instance of Apache Accumulo for testing. It will
+create Zookeeper and Accumulo processes that write all of their data to a single local
+directory. <a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-minicluster/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/minicluster/MiniAccumuloCluster.html">MiniAccumuloCluster</a> makes it easy to code agaist a real Accumulo instance.
+Developers can write realistic-to-end integration tests that mimic the use of a normal
+Accumulo instance.</p>
+
+<p><a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-minicluster/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/minicluster/MiniAccumuloCluster.html">MiniAccumuloCluster</a> is published in a separate jar that should be added to your pom.xml
+as a test dependency:</p>
+
+<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.apache.accumulo<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>accumulo-minicluster<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>${accumulo.version}<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;scope&gt;</span>test<span class="nt">&lt;/scope&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/dependency&gt;</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>To start it up, you will need to supply an empty directory and a root password as arguments:</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">File</span> <span class="n">tempDirectory</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="c1">// JUnit and Guava supply mechanisms for creating temp directories</span>
+<span class="n">MiniAccumuloCluster</span> <span class="n">accumulo</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">MiniAccumuloCluster</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">tempDirectory</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="s">"password"</span><span class="o">);</span>
+<span class="n">accumulo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">start</span><span class="o">();</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Once we have our mini cluster running, we will want to interact with the Accumulo client API:</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">Instance</span> <span class="n">instance</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">ZooKeeperInstance</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">accumulo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getInstanceName</span><span class="o">(),</span> <span class="n">accumulo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getZooKeepers</span><span class="o">());</span>
+<span class="n">Connector</span> <span class="n">conn</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">instance</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">getConnector</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"root"</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="n">PasswordToken</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"password"</span><span class="o">));</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>Upon completion of our development code, we will want to shutdown our MiniAccumuloCluster:</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">accumulo</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">stop</span><span class="o">();</span>
+<span class="c1">// delete your temporary folder</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h2 id="iterator-test-harness">Iterator Test Harness</h2>
+
+<p>Iterators, while extremely powerful, are notoriously difficult to test. While the API defines
+the methods an Iterator must implement and each method’s functionality, the actual invocation
+of these methods by Accumulo TabletServers can be surprisingly difficult to mimic in unit tests.</p>
+
+<p>The Apache Accumulo “Iterator Test Harness” is designed to provide a generalized testing framework
+for all Accumulo Iterators to leverage to identify common pitfalls in user-created Iterators.</p>
+
+<h3 id="framework-use">Framework Use</h3>
+
+<p>The Iterator Test Harness is published in a separate jar that should be added to your pom.xml as
+a test dependency:</p>
+
+<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;dependency&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;groupId&gt;</span>org.apache.accumulo<span class="nt">&lt;/groupId&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;artifactId&gt;</span>accumulo-iterator-test-harness<span class="nt">&lt;/artifactId&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;version&gt;</span>${accumulo.version}<span class="nt">&lt;/version&gt;</span>
+  <span class="nt">&lt;scope&gt;</span>test<span class="nt">&lt;/scope&gt;</span>
+<span class="nt">&lt;/dependency&gt;</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<p>To use the Iterator test harness, create a class that extends the <a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-iterator-test-harness/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/iteratortest/junit4/BaseJUnit4IteratorTest.html">BaseJUnit4IteratorTest</a> class
+and defines the following:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>A <code class="highlighter-rouge">SortedMap</code> of input data (<code class="highlighter-rouge">Key</code>-<code class="highlighter-rouge">Value</code> pairs)</li>
+  <li>A <a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-core/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/core/data/Range.html">Range</a> to use in tests</li>
+  <li>A <code class="highlighter-rouge">Map</code> of options (<code class="highlighter-rouge">String</code> to <code class="highlighter-rouge">String</code> pairs)</li>
+  <li>A <code class="highlighter-rouge">SortedMap</code> of output data (<code class="highlighter-rouge">Key</code>-<code class="highlighter-rouge">Value</code> pairs)</li>
+  <li>A list of <a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-iterator-test-harness/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/iteratortest/testcases/IteratorTestCase.html">IteratorTestCase</a>s (these can be automatically discovered)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>The majority of effort a user must make is in creating the input dataset and the expected
+output dataset for the iterator being tested.</p>
+
+<h3 id="normal-test-outline">Normal Test Outline</h3>
+
+<p>Most iterator tests will follow the given outline:</p>
+
+<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">java.util.List</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">java.util.SortedMap</span><span class="o">;</span>
+
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Key</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Range</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.core.data.Value</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.iteratortest.IteratorTestCaseFinder</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.iteratortest.IteratorTestInput</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.iteratortest.IteratorTestOutput</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.iteratortest.junit4.BaseJUnit4IteratorTest</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.apache.accumulo.iteratortest.testcases.IteratorTestCase</span><span class="o">;</span>
+<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">org.junit.runners.Parameterized.Parameters</span><span class="o">;</span>
+
+<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">class</span> <span class="nc">MyIteratorTest</span> <span class="kd">extends</span> <span class="n">BaseJUnit4IteratorTest</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+
+  <span class="nd">@Parameters</span>
+  <span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">Object</span><span class="o">[][]</span> <span class="nf">parameters</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">IteratorTestInput</span> <span class="n">input</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createIteratorInput</span><span class="o">();</span>
+    <span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">IteratorTestOutput</span> <span class="n">output</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createIteratorOutput</span><span class="o">();</span>
+    <span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">List</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">IteratorTestCase</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">testCases</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">IteratorTestCaseFinder</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">findAllTestCases</span><span class="o">();</span>
+    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">BaseJUnit4IteratorTest</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">createParameters</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">input</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">output</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">tests</span><span class="o">);</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">SortedMap</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">Key</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">Value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">INPUT_DATA</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createInputData</span><span class="o">();</span>
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">SortedMap</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">Key</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">Value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">OUTPUT_DATA</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createOutputData</span><span class="o">();</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">SortedMap</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">Key</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">Value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nf">createInputData</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="c1">// TODO -- implement this method</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">SortedMap</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">Key</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">Value</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nf">createOutputData</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="c1">// TODO -- implement this method</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">IteratorTestInput</span> <span class="nf">createIteratorInput</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">Map</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">options</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createIteratorOptions</span><span class="o">();</span> 
+    <span class="kd">final</span> <span class="n">Range</span> <span class="n">range</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">createRange</span><span class="o">();</span>
+    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nf">IteratorTestInput</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">MyIterator</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="na">class</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">options</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">range</span><span class="o">,</span> <span class="n">INPUT_DATA</span><span class="o">);</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">Map</span><span class="o">&lt;</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">,</span><span class="n">String</span><span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="nf">createIteratorOptions</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="c1">// TODO -- implement this method</span>
+    <span class="c1">// Tip: Use INPUT_DATA if helpful in generating output</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">Range</span> <span class="nf">createRange</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="c1">// TODO -- implement this method</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+
+  <span class="kd">private</span> <span class="kd">static</span> <span class="n">IteratorTestOutput</span> <span class="nf">createIteratorOutput</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
+    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="k">new</span> <span class="nf">IteratorTestOutput</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">OUTPUT_DATA</span><span class="o">);</span>
+  <span class="o">}</span>
+<span class="o">}</span>
+</code></pre>
+</div>
+
+<h3 id="limitations">Limitations</h3>
+
+<p>While the provided <a href="https://static.javadoc.io/org.apache.accumulo/accumulo-iterator-test-harness/1.8.1/org/apache/accumulo/iteratortest/testcases/IteratorTestCase.html">IteratorTestCase</a>s should exercise common edge-cases in user iterators,
+there are still many limitations to the existing test harness. Some of them are:</p>
+
+<ul>
+  <li>Can only specify a single iterator, not many (a “stack”)</li>
+  <li>No control over provided IteratorEnvironment for tests</li>
+  <li>Exercising delete keys (especially with major compactions that do not include all files)</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>These are left as future improvements to the harness.</p>
+
+
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