logging - Where does Hadoop store the logs of YARN applications?

Question

I run the basic example of Hortonworks' yarn application example. The application fails and I want to read the logs to figure out why. But I can't find any files at the expected location (/HADOOP_INSTALL_FOLDER/logs) where the logs of my mapreduce jobs are stored.

Does anybody know where yarn stores the non-mapreduce log files? Do I have to configure a special directory in the xml files?

Answer 1

The container logs should be under yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs:

Where to store container logs. An application's localized log directory will be found in ${yarn.nodemanager.log-dirs}/application_${appid}. Individual containers' log directories will be below this, in directories named container_{$contid}. Each container directory will contain the files stderr, stdin, and syslog generated by that container.