Here is an updated version of the instructions given at Free Alternative to Splunk Using Fluentd. The installation was performed in CentOS 6.5. 1. Install ElasticSearch mkdir /opt/src cd /opt/src wget https://download.elasticsearch.org/elasticsearch/elasticsearch/elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm rpm -ivh elasticsearch-1.2.1.noarch.rpm /sbin/chkconfig –add elasticsearch service elasticsearch start # Move default file locations if required mkdir /data/elasticsearch mkdir /data/elasticsearch/data mkdir /data/elasticsearch/tmp mkdir /data/elasticsearch/logs […]

I’m working through some of the examples in this Hadoop book. I’m a little rusty on compiling java programs and had a little trouble with this one so I’m documenting it here for anyone else how might be having issues. Firstly, I tried compiling the examples like this; javac MaxTemperature.java That wasn’t too successful; MaxTemperature.java:3: […]

I was getting the following error when attempting to run hadoop version. The java class is not found: org.apache.hadoop.util.VersionInfo Unable to determine Hadoop version information. ‘hadoop version’ returned: The java class is not found: org.apache.hadoop.util.VersionInfo This was due to having the OpenJDK installed rather than the one from Sun/Oracle. To resolve this simply uninstall the […]

I’m exploring Hadoop with the book Hadoop: The Definitive Guide. Appendix A shows how to download NCDC Weather data from S3 and put it into Hadoop. I didn’t want to download from S3 or load the entire dataset so here’s what I did instead. Here’s a little bash script I used to download the data. You […]

I wanted to get started playing about with Hadoop but had trouble installing Cloudera’s CDH. As I only wanted to have a working version of Hadoop for development purposes I decided to skip using Cloudera’s distribution and go direct to the Apache Hadoop release. Here’s the process I went through to set it up on OpenSuSE […]