About Release 8.0.0
This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric release 8.0.0, including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated ecosystem components and drivers.
8.0.0 Installation
This section contains information about installing HPE Data Fabric software. It also contains information about how to migrate data and applications from an Apache Hadoop cluster to a HPE Ezmeral Data Fabric cluster.
8.0.0 Upgrade
This section describes how to upgrade HPE Data Fabric software.
8.0.0 Data Fabric
HPE Data Fabric is the industry-leading data platform for AI and analytics that solves enterprise business needs.
8.0.0 Administration
This section describes how to manage the nodes and services that make up a cluster.
- Working with Multiple Fabrics Using the Data Fabric UI
  This section describes how you can get started learning about, installing, and using the HPE Data Fabric.
- Administering Users and Clusters
  Lists topics that help manage a Data Fabric cluster.
- Administering Nodes
  Provides a synopsis of managing nodes in a cluster.
- Administering Volumes
  This section provide information about how to organize and manage data using volumes, a unique feature of HPE Data Fabric clusters.
- Administering Files and Directories
- Administering Tables
  Administration of the HPE Data Fabric Database is done primarily via the command line (maprcli) or with the Managed Control System (MCS). Regardless of whether the HPE Data Fabric Database table is used for binary files or JSON documents, the same types of commands are used with slightly different parameter options. HPE Data Fabric Database administration is associated with tables, columns and column families, and table regions.
- Administering Streams
- Administering Data Fabric Gateways
  A HPE Data Fabric gateway mediates one-way communication between a source HPE Data Fabric cluster and a destination cluster. You can replicate HPE Data Fabric Database tables (binary and JSON) and HPE Data Fabric Streams streams. HPE Data Fabric gateways also apply updates from JSON tables to their secondary indexes and propagate Change Data Capture (CDC) logs.
- Administering Services
- Monitoring the Cluster
  This section describes how to monitor the health and performance of a MapR cluster.
  - Monitoring Using the Control System and the CLI
    Describes the Overview page in the Control System, which displays information about the cluster.
  - Using HPE Data Fabric Monitoring (Spyglass Initiative)
    HPE Data Fabric Monitoring (part of the Spyglass initiative) provides the ability to collect, store, and view metrics and logs for nodes, services, and jobs/applications.
    - HPE Data Fabric Monitoring Architecture
      HPE Data Fabric Monitoring integrates with open-source components to collect, aggregate, store, and visualize metrics and logs.
    - Metric Collection
      Metrics are collected from each node in the cluster so that administrators can use the data to monitor the cluster. In general, the collectd service collects metrics every 10 seconds. The exception is volume metrics which are collected every 10 minutes.
    - Configure the OpenTSDB Service Heap Size
      By default, the OpenTSDB service is configured to use a default heap size of 6 gigabytes. The default heap size can be adjusted by modifying certain configuration files.
    - Metric Visualization
      Use dashboards to visualize metrics across multiple nodes and clusters.
    - Log Collection
      Fluentd collects log events from each node in the cluster and stores them in a centralized location so that administrators can search the logs when troubleshooting issues in the cluster. The process that fluentd uses to parse and send log events to Elasticsearch differs based on the formatting of log events in each log file.
      - Configure Logs to Index
        Edit the fluentd.conf file (/opt/mapr/fluentd/fluentd-<version>/etc/fluentd/fluentd.conf) to enable or disable the indexing of a specific log.
      - Forward Logs to Syslog Server
        You can configure fluentd to send logs to a syslog server in addition to Elasticsearch. This topic provides instructions for configuring fluentd to send logs to syslog compatible collectors. However, it only provides guidelines for the syslog configuration, as syslog parameters differ by version. Knowledge of how to configure a syslog compatible collector is required to complete this configuration.
      - Data Fabric Core Logs
        The fluentd component reads and parses the following Data Fabric Core log files on each node in the cluster.
      - Data Fabric Ecosystem Logs
        The fluentd component reads and parses the following Data Fabric ecosystem component logs on each node in the cluster.
      - System Logs
        The fluentd component does not collect the following system logs by default because they require the configuration of additional permissions for the $MAPR_USER.
      - Data Fabric Monitoring Logs
        The fluentd component reads and parses the following Data Fabric Monitoring component logs on each node in the cluster.
    - Log Aggregation and Storage
      Fluentd uses a round-robin approach when writing logs to Elasticsearch nodes. If an Elasticsearch node in unavailable, Fluentd can fail over log storage to another Elasticsearch node.
    - Log Visualization
      Use dashboards to visualize the logs across multiple nodes and clusters.
    - HPE Data Fabric Monitoring Tips and Troubleshooting
      Lists the nuances of monitoring clusters.
    - Reconfiguring Data Fabric Monitoring
      Changes to an existing cluster, such as the addition of services, may require additional steps to enable the collection of metrics and logs.
  - Configuring Data Fabric to Track User Behavior
    Describes how to configure Data Fabric to track user behavior.
- Configuring Security
  Describes how to configure security and manage secure clusters.
- Managing Secure Clusters
  Provides procedures that will enable you to use Data Fabric clusters securely.
- Administering the Data Access Gateway
  The HPE Data Fabric Data Access Gateway is a service that acts as a proxy and gateway for translating requests between lightweight client applications and the HPE Data Fabric cluster. This section describes considerations when upgrading the service, how to modify configuration settings, and how to administer and manage the service.
- Planning for High Availability
- Administrator's Reference
  This section contains in-depth reference information for the administrator.
- Troubleshooting Cluster Administration
  Lists the common errors and their solutions.
- Best Practices for Backing Up HPE Data Fabric Information
  Lists the best practices and performance considerations to follow when backing up HPE Data Fabric information.
- IPv6 Support in Data Fabric
  Describes the IPv6 support feature for Data Fabric.
8.0.0 Development
This section contains information related to application development for Ezmeral ecosystem components and HPE Data Fabric products, including the file system, Database (Key-Value and JSON), and Event Streams.
Other Docs
This section contains release-independent information, including: Installer documentation, Ecosystem release notes, interoperability matrices, security vulnerabilities, and links to other Data Fabric version documentation.
Glossary
Definitions for commonly used terms in MapR Converged Data Platform environments.

Data Fabric Core Logs

The fluentd component reads and parses the following Data Fabric Core log files on each node in the cluster.

Service Name	Parsing Method	Description
adminuiapp	Multi-line	Control System logs from `/opt/mapr/apiserver/logs/apiserver.log`.
cldb	Multi-line	CLDB server logs from `$MAPR_HOME/logs/cldb.log`.
cldbfssummary	Multi-line	Summary of the CLDB server logs from`$MAPR_HOME/logs/cldbfssummary.log`
mfs_maprdb	Multi-line	HPE Data Fabric Database logs from `$MAPR_HOME/logs/mfs.log-5`. NOTE If nodes in the cluster run two filesystem instances, Fluentd only reads and parses logs from primary fileserver instance. Therefore, logs from the secondary fileserver instance will not be indexed by Elasticsearch.
mfs	Multi-line	Data Fabric filesystem logs from `$MAPR_HOME/logs/mfs.log-3`. NOTE If nodes in the cluster run two filesystem instances, Fluentd only reads and parses logs from primary fileserver instance. Therefore, logs from the secondary fileserver instance will not be indexed by Elasticsearch.
nfsserver	Multi-line and Multi-pattern	NFS for the HPE Data Fabric server log from `$MAPR_HOME/logs/nfsserver.log`
nodemanager	Multi-line	Node Manager logs from `$MAPR_HOME/hadoop/hadoop-/logs/yarn--nodemanager-*.log`.
resourcemanager	Multi-line	ResourceManager logs from `$MAPR_HOME/hadoop/hadoop-/logs/yarn--resourcemanager-*.log`
warden	Multi-line and Multipattern	Warden logs from `$MAPR_HOME/logs/warden.log`.
zookeeper	Multi-line	Zookeeper logs from `$MAPR_HOME/zookeeper/zookeeper-*/logs/zookeeper.log`

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HPE Data Fabric 8.0.0 Software Documentation
Abstract	This site contains documentation for HPE Data Fabric Software version 8.0.0 including installation, configuration, administration, and reference content, as well as content for the associated bundled ecosystem components and drivers.
Published	November 2025
Edition	8.0.0
Topic last updated	2025-07-07