[jira] Commented: (HBASE-533) Region Historian

["Jean-Daniel Cryans (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jean-Daniel Cryans commented on HBASE-533:
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Now it explains everything. Thank you stack for your help!

> Region Historian
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>                 Key: HBASE-533
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-533
>             Project: Hadoop HBase
>          Issue Type: Wish
>            Reporter: Bryan Duxbury
>            Assignee: Jean-Daniel Cryans
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: hbase-533-v1-fix.patch, hbase-533-v1.patch, hbase-533-v2.patch, hbase-533-v3.patch, hbase-533-v4.patch
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> Whenever we try to debug region splitting, assignment, compaction, etc. issues, we always end up having to look in 1-20 different log files for cryptic names of regions and try to piece together the chain of events ourselves. This is a challenging at best effort most of the time.
> What would be very useful would be a new utility I've nicknamed the Region Historian. You give it the text name of a region, and it will track down the log messages relevant to it in the master and regionserver logs. Then, it will interleave the messages in such a way that the timestamps correctly list the order of events. The result is a log summary that accurately describes what happened to a region during it's lifetime, making it much easier to try and figure out where something went wrong.
> Other things it could do would be replace cryptic log messages with simple events like "the region was split into a and b", "the region was assigned to server x", and trace the lineage of a region backwards to its parent before it came into existence.
> I'm sure there are other things we would think up that would be useful as well.

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