Hive Logging (Hive 2.1 and Later)

For certain Hive 2.1 and later releases, this topic describes the folder structure of the Hive logs and includes details about the log-file contents and how log files are installed in multinode installations.

The Hive log information in this topic applies to Hive 2.1 and later releases beginning with the 1803 release-date identifier. Included are the Hive releases in Ecosystem Packs (EEPs) 3.0.3, 3.0.4, 3.0.5, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.1.4, 5.0.x, 6.0.x, 6.1.1, and 6.2.0. For more information about release-date identifiers, see Release History for EEPs.

Default log folder structure

Hive logs have the following folder structure:

${HIVE_HOME}/log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.out
${HIVE_HOME}/log/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-metastore-${HOSTNAME}.out
${HIVE_HOME}/log/init_derby_db_${TIMESTAMP}.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-metastore-${HOSTNAME}.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat-console.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat-console-error.log
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${OTHER_USER}
${HIVE_HOME}/log/${OTHER_USER}/${OTHER_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log

Here: 

${HIVE_HOME} - Hive home folder. Usually this is /opt/mapr/hive/hive.
${ADMIN_USER} - Admin user of cluster that runs HiveServer2 and HiveMetastore daemons. Usually this is mapr.
${HOSTNAME} - Name of the host where a daemon runs.
${TIMESTAMP} - Date and time of log creation.
${OTHER_USER} - Not an admin user.

Content of log files

Files $HIVE_HOME/log/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.out and $HIVE_HOME/log/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-metastore-${HOSTNAME}.out contain information about when HiveServer2 and HiveMetastore daemons are stated, and what are their PIDs.

Files $HIVE_HOME/log/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log and $HIVE_HOME/log/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log contain information from HiveServer2 and HiveMetastore daemons. File ${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log also contains job progress.

The ${HIVE_HOME}/log/${OTHER_USER}/${OTHER_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log file is created when somebody runs Hive CLI over the ${OTHER_USER}. The ${OTHER_USER}-hiveserver2-${HOSTNAME}.log file contains job progress.

The ${HIVE_HOME}/log/init_derby_db_${TIMESTAMP}.log file is created if and only if Hive was configured for Derby Db through cluster installation.

Log files on multi node Hive installation

Consider Hive multi node installation (that is Hive packages are installed on different nodes). See Table 1:

Table 1. Cluster Configuration
Hive Metastore HiveServer2 HiveWebHCat
node1 ✓
node2 ✓
node3 ✓

See Table 2 for log configurations.

Table 2. Logs Configuration on Hive Multi-Node Installation
node1 node2 node3
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-metastore- ${HOSTNAME}.out ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-metastore- ${HOSTNAME}.log ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/hive-${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2- ${HOSTNAME}.out ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/${ADMIN_USER}-hiveserver2- ${HOSTNAME}.log ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/ ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat.log ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat-console.log ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER}/webhcat/webhcat-console-error.log ✓
${HIVE_HOME}/logs/${ADMIN_USER} ✓ ✓ ✓