I don't know if anyone still needs this. But you have to make the full Ganglia configurations:
# Ganglia conf
*.sink.ganglia.class=org.apache.spark.metrics.sink.GangliaSink
*.sink.ganglia.name=AMZN-EMR
*.sink.ganglia.host=$MASTERIP
*.sink.ganglia.port=8649
*.sink.ganglia.mode=unicast
*.sink.ganglia.period=10
*.sink.ganglia.unit=seconds
# Enable JvmSource for instance master, worker, driver and executor
master.source.jvm.class=org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource
worker.source.jvm.class=org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource
driver.source.jvm.class=org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource
executor.source.jvm.class=org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource
Even with the full configuration, I'm running into this issue from AWS EMR 5.33.0
21/05/26 14:18:20 ERROR org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem: Source class org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource cannot be instantiated
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.metrics.source.JvmSource
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.classForName(Utils.scala:239)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSources$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:184)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSources$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:181)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:130)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:130)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:236)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:40)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:130)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.registerSources(MetricsSystem.scala:181)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.start(MetricsSystem.scala:102)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:528)
at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.<init>(JavaSparkContext.scala:58)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:247)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:238)
at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.invokeConstructor(ConstructorCommand.java:80)
at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.execute(ConstructorCommand.java:69)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
21/05/26 14:18:20 ERROR org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem: Sink class org.apache.spark.metrics.sink.GangliaSink cannot be instantiated
21/05/26 14:18:20 ERROR org.apache.spark.SparkContext: Error initializing SparkContext.
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.spark.metrics.sink.GangliaSink
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
at org.apache.spark.util.Utils$.classForName(Utils.scala:239)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSinks$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:200)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem$$anonfun$registerSinks$1.apply(MetricsSystem.scala:196)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:130)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap$$anonfun$foreach$1.apply(HashMap.scala:130)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashTable$class.foreachEntry(HashTable.scala:236)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreachEntry(HashMap.scala:40)
at scala.collection.mutable.HashMap.foreach(HashMap.scala:130)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.registerSinks(MetricsSystem.scala:196)
at org.apache.spark.metrics.MetricsSystem.start(MetricsSystem.scala:104)
at org.apache.spark.SparkContext.<init>(SparkContext.scala:528)
at org.apache.spark.api.java.JavaSparkContext.<init>(JavaSparkContext.scala:58)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
at py4j.reflection.MethodInvoker.invoke(MethodInvoker.java:247)
at py4j.reflection.ReflectionEngine.invoke(ReflectionEngine.java:357)
at py4j.Gateway.invoke(Gateway.java:238)
at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.invokeConstructor(ConstructorCommand.java:80)
at py4j.commands.ConstructorCommand.execute(ConstructorCommand.java:69)
at py4j.GatewayConnection.run(GatewayConnection.java:238)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)
It's weird because AWS EMR should provide this dependency (org.apache.spark:spark-core_2.11:2.4.7
) and I hope that the Spark distribution with AWS EMR is compiled with the Ganglia option. Forcing this jar on --packages or --jars spark options doesn't help either.
If someone manages to get Ganglia working with Spark on AWS EMR with driver/executors jvm monitoring. Please do tell me how.