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Apache Spark monitoring overview

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Microsoft Fabric Spark monitoring is designed to offer a web-UI based experience with built-in rich capabilities for monitoring the progress and status of Spark applications in progress, browsing past Spark activities, analyzing and optimizing performance, and facilitating troubleshooting of failures. Multiple entry points are available for browsing, monitoring, and viewing Spark application details.

Monitor hub

The Monitor hub serves as a centralized portal for browsing Spark activities across items. At a glance, you can view in-progress Spark applications triggered from Notebooks, Spark Job Definitions, and Pipelines. You can also search and filter Spark applications based on different criteria and drill down to view more Spark execution details of a Spark application. From the Fabric portal, select Monitor from the navigation pane to open the Monitor hub.

Item recent runs

When working on specific items, the item Recent Runs feature allows you to browse the item's current and recent activities and gain insights on the submitter, status, duration, and other information for activities submitted by you or others.

Notebook contextual monitoring

Notebook Contextual Monitoring offers the capability of authoring, monitoring, and debugging Spark jobs within a single place. You can monitor Spark job progress, view Spark execution tasks and executors, and access Spark logs within a Notebook at the Notebook cell level. The Spark advisor is also built into Notebook to offer real-time advice on code and cell Spark execution and perform error analysis.

Spark job definition inline monitoring

The Spark job definition Inline Monitoring feature allows you to view Spark job definition submission and run status in real-time, as well as view the Spark job definition's past runs and configurations. You can navigate to the Spark application detail page to view more details.

Pipeline Spark activity inline monitoring

For Pipeline Spark Activity Inline Monitoring, deep links have been built into the Notebook and Spark job definition activities within the Pipeline. You can view Spark application execution details, the respective Notebook and Spark job definition snapshot, and access Spark logs for troubleshooting. If the Spark activities fail, the inline error message is also available within Pipeline Spark activities.

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