Azkaban is a batch workflow job scheduler created at LinkedIn to run their Hadoop Jobs.
Often times there is a need to run a set of jobs and processes in a particular order within a workflow. Azkaban will resolve the ordering through job dependencies and provide an easy to use web user interface to maintain and track your workflows. Here are a few features:
- Compatible with any version of Hadoop
- Easy to use web UI
- Simple web and http workflow uploads
- Project workspaces
- Scheduling of workflows
- Modular and pluginable
- Authentication and Authorisation
- Tracking of user actions
- Email alerts on failure and successes
- SLA alerting and auto killing
- Retrying of failed jobs
